How to enable DFS channels?

John Paul Morrison jmorrison at bogomips.com
Mon May 23 13:45:03 PDT 2022


I am not able to see or connect to SSIDs on DFS channels with the b43
or wl Broadcom drivers - is there any way to enable these channels?

I can connect to normal 5 GHz channels and 2.4 GHz but not DFS ones
even though I've set the country code. I can see DFS channels with
other non Broadcom wifi adapters.

thanks


lspci:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4359]
        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0014]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        Memory at f7e00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
        Kernel modules: bcma, wl


iw reg get
global
country CA: DFS-FCC
        (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
        (5150 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW
        (5250 - 5350 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW
        (5470 - 5600 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS
        (5650 - 5730 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS
        (5735 - 5835 @ 80), (N/A, 30), (N/A)

modinfo b43
filename:
/lib/modules/5.17.8-300.fc36.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/b43.ko.xz
firmware:       b43/ucode9.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode42.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode40.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode5.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode30_mimo.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode33_lcn40.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode29_mimo.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode26_mimo.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode25_mimo.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode25_lcn.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode24_lcn.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode16_mimo.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode16_lp.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode15.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode14.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode13.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode11.fw
license:        GPL
author:         Rafał Miłecki
author:         Gábor Stefanik
author:         Michael Buesch
author:         Stefano Brivio
author:         Martin Langer
description:    Broadcom B43 wireless driver
rhelversion:    9.99
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev10*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0F*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0D*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0C*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0B*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0A*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev09*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev07*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev06*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev05*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev2Acl*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev28cl*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev1Ecl*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev1Dcl*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev1Ccl*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev18cl*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev17cl*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev15cl*
alias:          bcma:m04BFid0812rev11cl*
depends:        mac80211,ssb,bcma,mmc_core,cfg80211,cordic
retpoline:      Y
intree:         Y
name:           b43
vermagic:       5.17.8-300.fc36.x86_64 SMP preempt mod_unload
sig_id:         PKCS#7
signer:         Fedora kernel signing key
sig_key:        61:BB:F6:FE:40:B1:2C:D8:1C:BD:5F:AE:D0:52:92:4B:D2:4B:6C:3B


modinfo wl
filename:       /lib/modules/5.17.8-300.fc36.x86_64/extra/wl/wl.ko.xz
license:        MIXED/Proprietary
rhelversion:    9.99
alias:          pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc02sc80i*
depends:        cfg80211
retpoline:      Y
name:           wl
vermagic:       5.17.8-300.fc36.x86_64 SMP preempt mod_unload



More information about the b43-dev mailing list