Re: Half and Quarter Channel Support??

Steve Brown <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:06:13 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
  On 07/22/2010 01:35 PM, Shawn wrote:
> I am trying to use a Ubiquity XR9 in Half and Quarter channel modes, but I
> cannot get it to work.
>
> The managed stations sees the access point in half and quarter channel mode
> but they cannot associate to the AP. Works properly in full (20MHz) BW mode.
>
> I've done a ton of reading on here and the web, but I can't seem to get a
> straight answer: Is Half and Quarter channel operation supported by Madwifi? I
> guess particularly with the Ubiquity XR9 card. I spoke with the Ubiquity tech
> support guy and he tells me that Madwifi does NOT support 10MHz and 5MHz
> channels. Yet, I can get the Wiligear 2.4 cards to work in half bandwidth
> modes with Madwifi.... so confused now.
>
> If so, any ideas what could be wrong?
>
>
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Setting the country to 5001 gives channel mappings for all 5, 10 and 20 
MHz channel widths.

The problem I had is that the scanner only used the first channel/width 
combo on each frequency. So, it only scanned 4 instead of the 10 
possible combinations.

Steve

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