[wireless-regdb] [PATCH] wireless-regdb: Add back regulatory rules for US

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Fri Jan 23 07:33:03 PST 2015


On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:37:20PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 07:42:12PM -0800, Daiwei Li wrote:
> > We've found that our devices can't seem to operate on certain
> > frequencies (e.g. 5660MHz) being used by access points like the Apple
> > Airport Extreme and Asus RT-AC68U. I did a git bisect and found that
> > 31dc1c5eca29d039ac8f26340defe44bd7e497c1 removed that band amongst
> > others. A more recent [1] FCC source implies that these frequencies
> > should be usable with DFS.
> > 
> > Does anyone know the source for the commit that removed these frequencies from?
> 
> I'm not sure what the exact rationale for that part of the commit was.
> 
> > @@ -1125,6 +1125,8 @@ country US: DFS-FCC
> >         (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (30)
> >         (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (17), AUTO-BW
> >         (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (23), DFS, AUTO-BW
> > +       (5490 - 5600 @ 80), (23), DFS, AUTO-BW
> > +       (5650 - 5710 @ 40), (23), DFS, AUTO-BW
> >         (5735 - 5835 @ 80), (30)
> 
> AUTO-BW does not seem to make much sense here since neither new range
> has immediately neighboring ranges with different flags.

Good point. Daiwei, care to send an updated patch?



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