From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@gmail.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ath9k 9380: All 5Ghz channels flagged as passive-scanning
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 13:09:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDABEE9.9090608@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimizNePq-GFsOYxNtfDNLc8kqjJFw@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/23/2011 12:26 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>> On 05/23/2011 11:39 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05/23/2011 09:54 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 05/23/2011 04:28 AM, Mohammed Shafi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is on 2.6.39-wl+
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All the 5Ghz channels are showing as passive scanning, which
>>>>>> makes them unusable for APs if nothing else.
>>>>>
>>>>> for me channels 36,40,44,48 are ok in 5ghz. used the latest
>>>>> wireless-testing just brought the card up as station mode.
>>>>
>>>> Most of my systems show the same, at least most of the time.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Any idea why this is happening?
>>>>>
>>>>> don't know, may be regulatory.
>>>>
>>>> After a reboot and an idle weekend, mine also look normal.
>>>> So, it's something transient it appears.
>>>
>>> Err, I mis-spoke..the 9380 system still shows passive
>>> scanning everywhere...
>>
>> Busted one:
>>
>> ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x6a
>> ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
>> ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
>> ath: Regpair used: 0x6a
>>
>> cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
>> cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US
>> cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain,
>> max_eirp)
>> cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
>> cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm)
>> cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
>> cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
>> cfg80211: (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
>> cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm)
>>
>>
>> Bleh, seems my Sparklan 127 NIC is set to world-roam :(
>>
>> What a total pain in the arse!
>
> Its what the card was designed and programmed for. The only thing you
> can do with world roaming cards then is just scan, and if you find a
> beacon on a channel which is a non-DFS channel beaconing will be
> enabled then.
Makes it basically useless as a 5Ghz AP though, eh?
Guess it's time to go find a hack to over-ride eeprom
settings :(
Ben
>
> Luis
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-20 22:22 ath9k 9380: All 5Ghz channels flagged as passive-scanning Ben Greear
2011-05-23 11:28 ` Mohammed Shafi
2011-05-23 16:54 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 18:39 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 18:52 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 19:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-05-23 20:09 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2011-05-23 20:25 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-05-23 20:51 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 20:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-05-23 21:19 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 21:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-05-23 21:38 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 21:42 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-05-23 21:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-05-23 21:59 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 22:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-05-24 4:48 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-24 11:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-05-24 13:00 ` Brian Prodoehl
2011-05-24 13:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-05-24 13:18 ` Brian Prodoehl
2011-05-24 21:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-05-24 14:06 ` Mohammed Shafi
2011-05-24 14:08 ` Mohammed Shafi
2011-05-24 15:05 ` Ben Greear
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