Re: Allowing station to over-ride default VHT-oper element?

2015-06-10 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 12:58 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: Ok, thanks for that..one less piece of work for me to do :) From what I can tell, it *IS* ok to have an AP do VHT on 40Mhz though? It may even be compelled to do so by the spec, since there could be overlapping networks (see 10.39.2.)

Re: Allowing station to over-ride default VHT-oper element?

2015-06-10 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 12:29 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: First, is this even a valid thing to do, or does VHT imply that stations are always available to do 80Mhz? According to the spec, a VHT STA must support 80 MHz: 802.11ac-2013, 22.1.1: A VHT STA shall support the following features:

Re: Allowing station to over-ride default VHT-oper element?

2015-06-10 Thread Ben Greear
On 06/10/2015 12:55 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 12:29 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: First, is this even a valid thing to do, or does VHT imply that stations are always available to do 80Mhz? According to the spec, a VHT STA must support 80 MHz: 802.11ac-2013, 22.1.1:

Allowing station to over-ride default VHT-oper element?

2015-06-10 Thread Ben Greear
I'm trying to figure out how to make a VHT station with hardware capable of 80Mhz width instead force itself to advertise/use just 40Mhz width, but still support VHT. Similar to how the VHT-capabilities overrides works, but for VHT-operation. First, is this even a valid thing to do, or does VHT