Subject: Re: iwl4965 - wpa_supplicant can't see 5Ghz frequencies -
	2.6.26-rc1 kernel
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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> > Fun. How about it we just make wpa supplicant ignore FREQ/channel
> > completely if it uses FREQ/frequency anyway?
>=20
> Can't because some drivers send channel and not frequency.  Yeah, we
> could fix all the drivers, but that doesn't help people running latest
> supplicant on older kernels.

Oh, good point. I guess the patch you posted is the only sane thing to
do then, and require that drivers that work in the 5 GHz band send
frequency (because there channel numbers need not be unique due to
802.11j's channelisation offset)

johannes

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