Radiotap Channel Bug

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 22:04:18 PDT 2014


On 20 August 2014 01:36, Brandon Enochs <enochs.brandon at gmail.com> wrote:
> With CentOS 6.5, the LP phy type currently suffers from a calculation
> error in the way that it reports the channel on which a frame was
> received up through the mac80211 stack.  It should use the
> b43_channel_to_freq_2ghz function; however, it uses the
> b43_freq_to_channel_2ghz instead.  As a result, the radiotap header
> provides nonsensical values for the channel field.  The following
> patch fixes this issue

Consider updating kernel to some newer version. I know 2.6.32 is a
still supported longterm, but it may miss some things anyway.

It seems the frequency fix was applied back to 3.2 longterm only.



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