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Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 23:56:45 +0300
From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: iwl4965 - wpa_supplicant can't see 5Ghz frequencies - 2.6.26-rc1 kernel
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
>> > Fun. How about it we just make wpa supplicant ignore FREQ/channel
>> > completely if it uses FREQ/frequency anyway?
>>
>> 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)
>

Fix in the mac should go in as well in so it will work with older
supplicants and it doesn't really hurt.
Tomas