Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.239]:21633 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752061AbZDMRLi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:11:38 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so2166144rvb.1 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:11:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <69e28c910904130957o68d24c90pf49f44f8db60ece4@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090410213958.GA12571@hell.pl> <20090411171955.76c48709@vroon.org> <20090413162439.GA30220@hell.pl> <69e28c910904130957o68d24c90pf49f44f8db60ece4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:11:36 -0400 Message-ID: (sfid-20090413_191142_267237_DB033F03) Subject: Re: ath5k blind to nearby network From: Bob Copeland To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Cc: Grzegorz Nowakowski , Tony Vroon , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2009/4/13 G=E1bor Stefanik : > Windows XP auto-configures the regulatory domain based on your > regional settings. Intel cards have semi-hardcoded regulatory > information in their EEPROMs, which allows Linux to automatically > select the right regulatory settings. Atheros cards have no such > firmware-level regulatory enforcement. =2E..yet. Actually ath9k does, and there are patches for ath5k. However, a lot of cards are programmed to be world roaming in the eeprom too. So 'iw reg set XX' is still your best bet. --=20 Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html