Return-path: Received: from nbd.name ([46.4.11.11]:56208 "EHLO nbd.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752402Ab1A2NeX (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:34:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4D441756.5010702@openwrt.org> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:34:14 +0100 From: Felix Fietkau MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Halperin CC: Ben Greear , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hti->control_chan is 15?? References: <4D4345A8.6060806@candelatech.com> <4D435D76.2040703@candelatech.com> <4D4362BF.7050208@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2011-01-29 1:48 AM, Daniel Halperin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Ben Greear wrote: >> My AP is an off-the-shelf Netgear: >> WNDR3700 >> >> It's only rate configuration option is '300Mbps', which appears to >> turn on HT40. >> >> It is configured for channel 10 (for the packet capture) and actually >> passes traffic there. It's just this HT Info thing with (primary-channel == >> (real_channel + 4)) >> that seems wrong. Note that when I had the channel set to 11, it was >> reporting >> 15 for the primary channel in the HT info. >> >> Looks like a bug in that AP to me...but would be nice if there were a way to >> work around it, in case others have similar issues. > > Set it to channel 6, then? > > Yeah, I played with Netgear's APs (and D-Link's) for about 3 hours > before I put them down and never picked them up again. Performance, > configuration, reliability, etc., were horrible. I've found that > Apple APs work well, but really hostapd offers the best flexibility by > far. I think the hardware quality of the WNDR3700 is pretty good. I'm using it at home regularly (running OpenWrt of course). - Felix