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From: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Radiotap Channel Bug
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:04:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACna6rwBFAeCW2R+nq+7EALORdsFM+gT0-ne=vv6OUCGZOdAsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP-AUygR-351cngtV5f5NUyitdAay3+az4=_zkWij61wh7iByw@mail.gmail.com>

On 20 August 2014 01:36, Brandon Enochs <enochs.brandon@gmail.com> wrote:
> With CentOS 6.5, the LP phy type currently suffers from a calculation
> error in the way that it reports the channel on which a frame was
> received up through the mac80211 stack.  It should use the
> b43_channel_to_freq_2ghz function; however, it uses the
> b43_freq_to_channel_2ghz instead.  As a result, the radiotap header
> provides nonsensical values for the channel field.  The following
> patch fixes this issue

Consider updating kernel to some newer version. I know 2.6.32 is a
still supported longterm, but it may miss some things anyway.

It seems the frequency fix was applied back to 3.2 longterm only.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-20  5:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-19 23:36 Radiotap Channel Bug Brandon Enochs
2014-08-20  5:04 ` Rafał Miłecki [this message]
2014-08-20 13:02   ` Brandon Enochs
2014-08-20 13:09 ` Brandon Enochs

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