Gmane
From: Pavel Roskin <proski <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: MadWifi 0.9.4.1 status
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.devel
Date: 2008-08-13 08:45:03 GMT (21 weeks, 2 days, 19 hours and 1 minute ago)
Quoting Ondrej Zajicek <santiago <at> crfreenet.org>:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:11:36AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I think we need to write common working code shared between trunk, DFS
>> branch and 0.9.4 branch.  If it would require bringing too much DFS
>> code to 0.9.4 branch, let's disable channel switching in 0.9.4.1.
>
> Perhaps i missed something, but i didn't noticed any problems related to
> channel switching when using 0.9.4 . Therefore, completely disabling
> channel switching looks like overkill to me as AP mode without explicit
> channel setting is barely usable.

You will be able to bring the interface down, set the channel and  
bring the interface up.  Channel _switching_ happens when the  
interface is active and possibly has stations associated to it.   
Please see http://madwifi.org/ticket/1903

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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