Re: IBSS channel support

[p4u <hakais@gmail.com>]

Thanks.
I think I can use it

On 29/07/11 17:54, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 17:27 +0200, p4u wrote:
>> Hi,
>> This is my first mail to this list, I'm Pau from Barcelona working in
>> guifi.net (wireless community)
>> First of all I want to say thank you guys for your amazing job :-)
>>
>> Now, I have a little question. Using command "iw phy phy0 info" I can
>> see that IBSS mode is only avaiable in some channels for 5ghz spectrum.
>> I have been looking for information about it, but I cannot find from
>> what depends if some channel can by used in IBSS mode or not. So I think
>> it depends on the driver and on the regdomain, is it right?
> Yes.
>
>> Also I'm working in some scripts, and I need to know if a channel has
>> IBSS support or not. The only way I found is with iw command, but pharse
>> this data is very dirty. Furthermore I can read in the end of iw help:
>>
>> "Do NOT screenscrape this tool, we don't consider its output stable."
>>
>> So I need another way to get this information. Any idea?
> Couldn't you use the CRDA database?  That's got bits that indicate
> whether or not some channels allow IBSS in your domain or not.
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/wireless-regdb/
>
> Dan
>
>


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