Uanble to enable 802.11g chanels above 11 despite of the REGDOMAIN set

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Sat Nov 26 06:28:11 UTC 2011


Just for you (and others) reference, just because you're overriding
the regulatory domain with a specific value doesn't mean the NIC has
all the calibration data you need for operation on those channels.

For example, just because you can configure a NIC to be in the japan
country code, doesn't instantly give you access to the two 4.9ghz
channels. :-)

There's more involved then just overriding the regulatory domain.
Hence, if it's an AR5416 or later, we can easily inspect the EEPROM
calibration/channel edge values and see what the NIC is configured
for. It's possible your NIC has channel edges which exclude > channel
11. At which point you won't be able to use those frequencies without
(further) breaking all kinds of potential legal issues.

Thanks,



Adrian


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