Is it a driver limitation or a firmware limitation? Because in theory, configuring the AP on the two bands is not different at all
Regards, Eng. Hosam Hittini On Jul 8, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Oleksij Rempel <li...@rempel-privat.de> wrote: > Am 08.07.2014 08:20, schrieb Hosam Hittini: >> Hello there, >> >> I have this dual band wireless >> adapter >> https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-dual-band-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-nusbdb >> and it uses AR9280 chipset for the 5GHz communication >> It’s using ath9k driver; I have Ubuntu 13.10 running 3.11 kernel and the >> adapter worked out of the box >> I’m using hostapd to configure the adapter as a software AP >> When I tried to configure the adapter as an AP on the 2.4GHz channels it >> worked fine >> When tried the 5GHz channels it gives me the following error >>> channel [1] (40) is disabled for use in AP mode, flags: 0x77 >>> wlan1: IEEE 802.11 Configured channel (40) not found from the channel >>> list of current mode (2) IEEE 802.11a >>> wlan1: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured channel >> In addition, _/*iw list*/_ command shows that the 5GHz channels have the >> “passive scanning” and “no IBSS” flags >> I can associate with an AP on the 5GHz though >> How to solve that >> Thank you > > 5GHz AP is not supported on this HW. > > -- > Regards, > Oleksij > > _______________________________________________ > ath9k-devel mailing list > ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
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