Marvell regulatory domain info storage?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Oct 7 05:59:00 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:37 -0700, Scott Lamb wrote:
> I think my wording is at fault here. I'm talking about the way a  
> modern general consumer laptop is supposed to work. I have not
> looked  
> at any of the code you're describing. What I heard (which seems  
> consistent with a quick sanity check against wikipedia's 802.11d  
> entry) is that the AP sends out the regulatory domain as part of the  
> beacon, so laptops can read this information before transmitting  
> anything back.

That only works for passive scan, surely?

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dwmw2




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