Re: Wireless

Quoting Joshua Oreman :

> WLAN is configured to support 802.11n and max speed 300Mbit/s. I'll change this
> settings to 802.11b+g and try it again. There was something about 802.11n
> at the Etherboot-Wiki.
> 
> The 802.11n could explain it. In many jurisdictions, transmissions on
> the 5.4GHz band have to use "spectrum management" checking to make
> sure they're not interfering with radar signals and such. 802.11b/g
> uses 2.4GHz, which usually doesn't have such issues.
> 
> It's also possible gPXE is being overzealous here, and that since we
> use 802.11g, the router would let us connect without spectrum
> management even though it supports it. You can remove lines 1028-1032
> from gPXE src/net/80211/net80211.c:
> 
>         if ( capab & IEEE80211_CAPAB_SPECTRUM_MGMT ) {
>                 DBGC ( dev, "802.11 %p cannot handle spectrum managed "
>                        "network\n", dev );
>                 return -ENOSYS;
>         }
> 
> and see if it works. If so, please let me know so I can submit this as a
> patch.
> 
> -- Josh
> 

Hi Josh,

i commented 'return -ENOSYS;' and it runs a little bit futher but it still doesn't work.

gPXE> dhcp net0
Waiting for link-up on net0...
802.11 0xa0d7c found network ME (00:1f:3f:17:49:5e)
802.11 0xa0d7c authenticating with method 0
802.11 0xa0d7c spectrum managed network detected. Maybe it wont work.
802.11 0xa0d7c setting country regulations for DE
802.11 0xa0d7c association failed (state=0100): Not supported (0x3c266003)

It seems that 'net80211_step_associate' fail. 

What does 'Not supported' mean?
How is the errorcode to read/split?

With best regards
Peter
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