Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:47688 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933050Ab1JDRts (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:49:48 -0400 Received: by ywb5 with SMTP id 5so741770ywb.19 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:49:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Christian Lamparter To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: [RFC 5/6] ath9k: enable DFS pulse detection Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 19:49:35 +0200 Cc: Zefir Kurtisi , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, kgiori@qca.qualcomm.com, nbd@openwrt.org References: <1317637758-11907-1-git-send-email-zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com> <201110041842.05218.chunkeey@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201110041949.35321.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (sfid-20111004_194951_646509_341A86A7) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 07:03:10 PM Adrian Chadd wrote: > Nope, what I'm saying is that someone's likely just copy/paste'd the > "we support x and y!" from some marketing material and then suggested > people use linux/openwrt/ath9k without really looking at it. I'm still curious how they got the Apple access point through the FCC testing back then. Well, I guess we'll never know for sure. > There were plenty of people advertising the AR9160 as a "3x3 MIMO" > when it's a 2x2 stream device with 3 antennas. I know this confused me > when I started tinkering with wifi stuff. AFAIK the 3x3 really just stands for the amount of tx X rx chains [and not antennas]. So if the hardware has 3 tx and rx chains it can be sold as a "3x3" device even if does not support 3 streams. > Anyway, we're getting off-track here. we can stop anytime.