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Subject: Re: iwl4965 - wpa_supplicant can't see 5Ghz frequencies -
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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 23:56 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> 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.

Yup.  Both parts (mac80211 FREQ re-order, and supplicant patch) should
be applied.

Dan