From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.28]:24757 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752547AbZDHQ1N (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:27:13 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 5so195985ywb.1 for ; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:27:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49DCD05B.9050802@gmail.com> (sfid-20090408_182716_387741_820F7FED) Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:27:07 -0400 From: Will Keaney MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Copeland CC: Linux Wireless Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Trouble Associating with ath5k on AR5212] References: <49DCA8E3.3060603@gmail.com> <49DCC641.4010405@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig347D4202BE0035BD415DF285" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig347D4202BE0035BD415DF285 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bob Copeland wrote: >> I also have to manually set the reg domain to US every time I load the= >> ath5k module. =EF=BF=BDI tried configuring wpa_supplicant.conf to do t= his >> itself, but that doesn't seem to work. =EF=BF=BDIt would be nice to ha= ve a >> module parameter for setting this at load time. >> =20 > > I may be wrong but I think that only works in wpa_supplicant if you > use -Dnl80211 (instead of -Dwext). > > FWIW in the default world roaming domain you can still connect to most > APs. Besides iw/wpa_supplicant, pending patches to ath5k will set the > default regdomain automatically based on the value stored in the eeprom= =2E > =20 Ahh, interesting. I didn't see nl80211 documented in the wpa_supplicant example configs or man page. I'll give that a shot. I seem to get much better scanning results with the region set properly, than on the world roaming domain. --------------enig347D4202BE0035BD415DF285 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknc0FsACgkQjfayWCA8dDGb+gCfVBnb7Qk89mI1srR4X8BGasYd Q1sAn1tGy8DqI/qrgNDbXaifNBbr5XeR =Bgjl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig347D4202BE0035BD415DF285--