From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:57692 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752350Ab1G2QHq (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:07:46 -0400 Received: by fxh19 with SMTP id 19so2411588fxh.19 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E32DAC6.7030308@gmail.com> (sfid-20110729_180749_792189_724BE704) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:07:34 +0200 From: p4u MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Williams CC: linux-wireless Subject: Re: IBSS channel support References: <4E32D144.6050304@gmail.com> <1311954873.3084.2.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> In-Reply-To: <1311954873.3084.2.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > -- ./p4u