From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 4 02:34:39 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 180A933F; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 02:34:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-x232.google.com (mail-pb0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D920217F5; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 02:34:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id rr13so22482139pbb.37 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:34:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=W84KjYxP19ZgaBqAWdVZTtamkNIB30plbbw198wnzso=; b=CD3X75E1xpqf4kZe8t6eX0V1yZoqGO5Xdi6/hBXzay6l4eLvEOXsFzn+TORcKxxb5m 2/Hm8SfdIR8Hel4g/QnMaBYBcVi9zxhYdL2yqRVTWiDeiqtpl3PqUGKnVMnnHIVPhGRk vCgwtqdAc2sx0ym5iO2eOAxoSqnn7Lpj3TpwNIz5F83CUuKBQsQdexksTlE23bC0NPcR YI5TDt/6x54dgblT1oZvu44upnt0rxGmCrRzmu0vLPxAwTgllcfo7zSIVFpM/hh/OErD bdE/SVEdDTf+CpOAN8slWc6ExOgyo7lY0QEy99D1VSbBAm4Pj/MWnIodPA5qvviYIiCg ytLw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.253.67 with SMTP id zy3mr42654515pbc.137.1386124478447; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:34:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.13.226 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 18:34:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 10:34:38 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Channel interference scan and manual selection From: Tek Wiz To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 02:34:39 -0000 compex wpj344 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > What model is the router? > > > -adrian > > On 3 December 2013 18:11, Tek Wiz wrote: > > 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 wrote: > >> > >> >> On 3 December 2013 17:50, Tek Wiz 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 > > > > >