[ath5k-devel] regulatory problems with ath5k

2010-05-26 Thread Arnd Hannemann
Hi, I'm trying to use 802.11a channels in AP mode with my ath5k nics with kernel 2.6.34. And after setting up crda, udev and wireless regdb, iw list still shows flags passive scanning, no IBSS for most of the 802.11a channels (see below.) I wonder what I'm doing wrong here? Band 2:

Re: [ath5k-devel] corrupted data

2010-05-26 Thread Bob Copeland
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Bruno Randolf b...@einfach.org wrote: please try this patch and tell us if it helped... bruno commit 0379d1e5a850f8e63832516af4245b9824d8623d Author: Bruno Randolf b...@einfach.org Date:   Wed May 26 11:58:11 2010 +0900    ath5k: better checks for rx

Re: [ath5k-devel] regulatory problems with ath5k

2010-05-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Arnd Hannemann hannem...@nets.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use 802.11a channels in AP mode with my ath5k nics with kernel 2.6.34. And after setting up crda, udev and wireless regdb, Which release of wireless-regdb? iw list still shows flags

Re: [ath5k-devel] regulatory problems with ath5k

2010-05-26 Thread Arnd Hannemann
Hi, FWI: I believe this whole regulatory framework is pretty broken in 2.6.34 If I associate with a 802.11g accesspoint with one NIC , I'm not allowed to use 802.11a on my other NIC at all. [ 23.352168] wlan0: associated [ 23.355993] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [

Re: [ath5k-devel] regulatory problems with ath5k

2010-05-26 Thread Arnd Hannemann
Am 26.05.2010 19:11, schrieb Luis R. Rodriguez: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Arnd Hannemann hannem...@nets.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use 802.11a channels in AP mode with my ath5k nics with kernel 2.6.34. And after setting up crda, udev and wireless regdb, Which

Re: [ath5k-devel] regulatory problems with ath5k

2010-05-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Arnd Hannemann hannem...@nets.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Am 26.05.2010 19:11, schrieb Luis R. Rodriguez: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Arnd Hannemann hannem...@nets.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use 802.11a channels in AP mode with my ath5k nics

Re: [ath5k-devel] regulatory problems with ath5k

2010-05-26 Thread Lukáš Turek
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 19:07:40 Arnd Hannemann wrote: FWI: I believe this whole regulatory framework is pretty broken in 2.6.34 If I associate with a 802.11g accesspoint with one NIC , I'm not allowed to use 802.11a on my other NIC at all. cfg80211 regulatory is broken in 2.6.34 if you have

Re: [ath5k-devel] corrupted data

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Brown
Thanks very much for the patch suggestion. I ran some large scp commands today with the patch installed. Several died with error message: Corrupted MAC on input. so it's likely the patch has not fixed the problem. I'll run some more tests at home where I can use FTP and have control over the

Re: [ath5k-devel] Race condition in CRDA calls?

2010-05-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Just FYI, you want to use linux-wireless for reporting such things, not ath5k-devel. Also I have been real busy in March (and stil am but just trying to reply) so if I do not reply maybe others can. In linux-wireless you'll likely get much more review/help than ath5k-devel for this. More below.

Re: [ath5k-devel] regulatory problems with ath5k

2010-05-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:41:28PM -0700, Lukáš Turek wrote: On Wednesday 26 May 2010 19:07:40 Arnd Hannemann wrote: FWI: I believe this whole regulatory framework is pretty broken in 2.6.34 If I associate with a 802.11g accesspoint with one NIC , I'm not allowed to use 802.11a on my other

Re: [ath5k-devel] regulatory problems with ath5k

2010-05-26 Thread Denis Periša
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arnd Hannemann hannem...@nets.rwth-aachen.de To: linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 13:23:16 +0200 Subject: [ath5k-devel] regulatory problems with ath5k Hi, I'm trying to use 802.11a channels in

[ath5k-devel] [PATCH] mac80211: mark 1, 2, 5.5 and 11Mbps as mandatory rates for 802.11b

2010-05-26 Thread Bruno Randolf
IEEE802.11-2007 clause 18.2.3.3 (p640) states that 1, 2, 5.5 11 Mbits are mandatory rates for what they call High Rate direct sequence spread spectrum (HR/DSSS) PHY (with long PLCP). Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf b...@einfach.org --- net/wireless/util.c | 12 ++-- 1 files changed, 6

Re: [ath5k-devel] corrupted data

2010-05-26 Thread Bruno Randolf
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 21:38:00 Bob Copeland wrote: + /* never process the self-linked entry at the end */ + if (ds-ds_link == bf-daddr) + break; + By this you're saying that the RXDP check just above is insufficient? i don't know. i