Bug 1254461

Summary:	Wi-Fi band-locking doesn't work
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jirka Klimes <jklimes>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Jirka Klimes <jklimes>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.2	CC:	dcbw, jklimes, rkhan, thaller, vbenes, vhumpa
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	NetworkManager-1.0.4-10.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Due to a bug in NetworkManager, it was not previously possible to set the Wi-Fi band to the "a" or "bg" values to lock to a specific frequency band. NetworkManager has been fixed, and it now sets the wpa_supplicant's "freq_list" option correctly, which enables proper Wi-Fi band locking.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-11-19 11:03:11 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Jirka Klimes 2015-08-18 08:10:54 UTC

NetworkManager can only use Wi-Fi band "a" or "bg" if the 802-11-wireless.band property is set. It is done via specifying allowed frequences to wpa_supplicant.

It does not work as expected though. NetworkManager sets wpa_supplicant's 'freq_list' option as comma-separated frequences, but wpa_supplicant expects space-separated list.

Comment 1 Jirka Klimes 2015-08-18 08:14:03 UTC

See upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627571#c11
and branch jk/freq-list-bgo627571 for a fix.

Comment 2 Jirka Klimes 2015-08-21 09:02:37 UTC

Let's put the following commit to RHEL 7.2
c8b5b5e supplicant: wpa_supplicant wants space-separated list in freq_list (bgo #627571)
It fixes the bug. The rest of the upstream branch will get into RHEL when we rebase to NM 1.0.6.

Comment 4 Vitezslav Humpa 2015-10-04 16:07:21 UTC

Verified band locking works by a series of automated test on several different wireless HW devices available.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 11:03:11 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2315.html