Re: "International" channels on a CM9

On Apr 23, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Benjamin Close wrote:
> Jordan Coleman wrote:
>> I have an embedded system that contains a Wistron CM9 802.11 card,  
>> purchased in the US.  After extensive testing in the US, the unit  
>> is now being installed in Europe, where 802.11b/g channels 1-13 are  
>> employed.  How can I enable channels 12 and 13 on this hardware,  
>> which currently seems to only be able to use the "US" channels, 1-11?
[...]
>   It might be a limitation of the driver. Can you provide more  
> details? ie: ifconfig -v

Happy to:

ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu  
1500
	ether 00:15:6d:54:65:c6
	inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/36Mbps)
	status: associated
	ssid PortOfSeattle channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:0f:66:ae:31:44
	authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
	wepkey 1:104-bit powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpower 31.5
	txpowmax 16.0 rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346 bmiss 7
	scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 30 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11a 7
	roam:rate11a 12 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1 roam:rssi11g 7
	roam:rate11g 5 -pureg protmode CTS -ht -htcompat -ampdu ampdulimit 8k
	ampdudensity - -amsdu -shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren -wme burst -ff
	-dturbo roaming MANUAL bintval 100

This is running FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE.  For completeness, here are a few  
seemingly-relevant lines from dmesg:

ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,  
RF5413)
[...]
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xa0010000-0xa001ffff irq 11 at device 14.0  
on pci0
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:15:6d:54:65:c6
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6

Thanks.

++J

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