Re: [Madwifi-users] DWL-650 country code for channels 12-13
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From: Sam L. <sa...@er...> - 2003-10-07 20:26:05
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On Tuesday 07 October 2003 01:04 pm, Florian Hackenberger wrote: > Hello! > > I've searched the mailing lists for changing the country code of the > Atheros driver, but the only (and non working suggestion) was to set the > CTRY_DEFAULT value in ah.h accordingly. I've tried several values (040 > (Austria), 276 (Germany), 250 (France), 392 (Japan), 1 (just guessing, > because default was 0)), but I always get this (on the terminal after a > "modprobe ath_pci"): > You cannot arbitrarily change the country code. You can only change it to a country that is valid w.r.t the regulatory domain programmed into the card. > /lib/modules/2.4.21/net/ath_pci.o: init_module: No such device > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, > including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. > You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg > > and this (kernel messages): > > ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>) > ath%d: unable to collect channel list from hal > > I think the HAL cannot map the country code to a frequency table. Does > anyone know which country code works, and enables the channels 12 and 13 > used in Europe? I really need these channels since my university's WLAN > is operating on channel 13. > > Any suggestions are welcome! Please undo your changes and send me the regdomain and county code values reported by the driver when you load normally. Also include the HAL version id. I'll check to see what the valid settings are for your card. It may be that the driver tables are incorrect (though they've been checked numerous times). Sam |