2008/7/2 Krishna, Geetanjali <geetanjali.krishna at intel.com>: > All of the country-specific regulatory constraints are burned into EEPROM > on the device. Intel makes several different geographic SKUs. MOW(Most of > the World) SKU supports channel 1-11. Only Japan and Korean SKU support > 1-13. > > Both uCode and driver should be looking at that data to scan the right > channels. Looks like currently the iwk driver is not looking at that > information. When that feature is incorporated into the driver, it should be > able to scan the legal channels in the geographic SKU that it is meant for.
That, or simply scan everything/all channels and put a 'its up to you to make sure the frequency you're using is legal'. Matthew > > > -Geeta > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:laptop-discuss- > >bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Michael Li > >Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:03 AM > >To: Matthew Gardiner > >Cc: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >Subject: Re: [laptop-discuss] Wireless Channels > > > > > >Matthew Gardiner ??: > >> 2008/7/1 Michael Li <Mikore.Li at sun.com <mailto:Mikore.Li at sun.com>>: > >> > >> Zhonghui, > >> > >> Additionally, I just found Intel4965 could scan out the AP set to > >> channel 13 under WinXP. > >> > >> > >> Same thing can be done with the WPN311 card as well on Windows XP - > >> infact, IIRC, it is the same chipset as the previous generation > >> MacBook uses which I used to connect to my Airport extreme at channel > >> 13 to avoid collision with the neighbours. > >> > >> All these devices can do it - I doubt they would make a special > >> 'japanese chip' and 'chinese chip' and 'european chip' - it would be > >> hugely expensive and pointless when all this could be set using a > >> combination of driver and firmware. > >Under Windows platform, WiFi adapter's working channels are region > >related, you can find different channel sets for different region in > >driver INF file(such as bcmwl5.inf). Driver install process determine > >the legal channel subset by region check from the living OS. > > > >It is different from Open Source world. > > > >- Michael > > > >> > >> Matthew > >> > >> > >> > >> - Michael > >> > >> Fu, Zhonghui ??: > >> > Matthew, > >> > I have confirmed that the driver of Intel 4965 indeed only > >> support 11 > >> > channels during scan, but I don't know why. I will discuss it with > >> > developer of this section code of IWK driver and check if we will > >> > modify it in the future. Thanks so much. > >> > Zhonghui > >> > > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- > >> > *From:* Matthew Gardiner [mailto:kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com > >> <mailto:kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com>] > >> > *Sent:* 2008?6?30? 19:54 > >> > *To:* Fu, Zhonghui > >> > *Cc:* laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >> <mailto:laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org> > >> > *Subject:* Re: [laptop-discuss] Wireless Channels > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > My router is a Linksys WAG325N ADSL2+ Router. > >> > > >> > My laptop has a Intel 4965 wireless chipset, my desktop has an > >> Atheros > >> > chipset (Netgear WPN311). > >> > > >> > I go: > >> > > >> > dladm scan-wifi > >> > > >> > No routers are shown, this occurs for both my laptop and desktop - > >> > when the channel on my router is set higher than 11 (channels > 12,13 > >> > are offered). > >> > > >> > I am running Solaris Express B91, and using bfu to update to > >> b92. The > >> > same problem occurs on all other versions of Solaris. > >> > > >> > Matthew > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > 2008/6/30 Fu, Zhonghui <zhonghui.fu at intel.com > >> <mailto:zhonghui.fu at intel.com> > >> > <mailto:zhonghui.fu at intel.com <mailto:zhonghui.fu at intel.com>>>: > >> > > >> > Can you provide more information about this problem, such as wifi > >> > chipset type, solaris edition and your operation steps. > >> > Zhonghui > >> > > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- > >> > *From:* laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org > >> <mailto:laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org> > >> > <mailto:laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org > >> <mailto:laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org>> > >> > [mailto:laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org > >> <mailto:laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org> > >> > <mailto:laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org > >> <mailto:laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org>>] *On Behalf Of > >> > *Matthew Gardiner > >> > *Sent:* 2008?6?30? 11:34 > >> > *To:* laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >> <mailto:laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org> > >> > <mailto:laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >> <mailto:laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org>> > >> > *Subject:* [laptop-discuss] Wireless Channels > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I've got a router that can operate up to channel 13, however, the > >> > two computers I run cannot detect anything above channel 11; is > >> > this a deficiency which is going to be addressed anytime soon? > >> > > >> > Matthew > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > laptop-discuss mailing list > >> > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >> <mailto:laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org> > >> > > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >laptop-discuss mailing list > >laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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