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Subject: Re: Channel interference scan and manual selection
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Hi Adrian,

I'd be happy to work on it.

What is the SVN URL to check out and commit?

My router is OpenWrt compatible. Is that good enough?

Yes, the metric involves interference and noise floor.

Thanks for your help,
Tek Wiz


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> >> On 3 December 2013 17:50, Tek Wiz <tx2023@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hello FreeBSD Wireless,
> >> >
> >> > Is it possible to do a an interference scan of all the channels and
> >> > manually select the channel?
>
> Hi,
>
> Well, if you don't assign a channel, the net80211 scan module will
> scan the channels, find the channel with the lowest noise floor as
> reported by the driver and use that.
>
> Now, ideally it'd actually check the channel for interference and
> channel busy status, and use _that_ metric.
>
> So, if someone wants a mini-project to implement that, I'd be happy to
> guide them / help them get that working. On ath(4), of course.
>
>
>
> -adrian
>