[laptop-discuss] Wireless Channels

[Brian Xu - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China]

Fu, Zhonghui 写道:
> 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.
>
The 4965 chip saves the supported channels info in the eeprom. The
current driver just limits the channels 1-11 for static when doing scan.
Ideally, the driver should read the channel info first then scan the
supported channel.

Thanks,
Brian
> Zhonghui
>
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> *From:* Matthew Gardiner [mailto:kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 2008年6月30日 19:54
> *To:* Fu, Zhonghui
> *Cc:* 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>>:
>
>     Can you provide more information about this problem, such as wifi
>     chipset type, solaris edition and your operation steps.
>     Zhonghui
>
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>     *From:* laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org
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>     [mailto:laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org
>     <mailto:laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org>] *On Behalf Of
>     *Matthew Gardiner
>     *Sent:* 2008年6月30日 11:34
>     *To:* 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
>
>
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