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Bug#772855: installation-reports: unable to connect to a wifi network on channel 13



On 27.12.2014 01:43, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 21:51 +0100, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
>> On 11.12.2014 21:57, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 19:28 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
>>>> Package: installation-reports
>>>> Severity: important
[...]
>> That's strange, apparently the card has been prepared to be for
>> Australians, who can use channel 13.
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> Dec 13 18:15:35 main-menu[392]: INFO: Menu item 'ethdetect' selected
>> Dec 13 18:15:36 kernel: [  112.707682] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
>> Dec 13 18:15:36 kernel: [  112.716130] ath9k 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
>> Dec 13 18:15:36 kernel: [  112.723098] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x21
>> Dec 13 18:15:36 kernel: [  112.723101] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
>> Dec 13 18:15:36 kernel: [  112.723103] ath: Country alpha2 being used: AU
>> Dec 13 18:15:36 kernel: [  112.723104] ath: Regpair used: 0x21
>> Dec 13 18:15:36 kernel: [  112.726937] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
>> Dec 13 18:15:36 kernel: [  112.727445] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0
>> Dec 13 18:15:36 kernel: [  112.727450] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9485 Rev:1 mem=0xffffc90011a00000, irq=30
>> Dec 13 18:15:38 kernel: [  115.279119] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
>> Dec 13 18:15:40 main-menu[392]: INFO: Menu item 'netcfg' selected
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> This driver uses a table of maximum TX power per channel in the wireless
> controller's EEPROM.  It looks like when the 'regpair' value is 0x21
> then it expects to find ETSI rules for the 2.4 GHz band, allowing use of
> channel 13, but it might not.
> 
> Does the interface work on channel 13 after installation?  (And assuming
> that you install crda.)

Yes it does.

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