From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: iwconfig will show a frequency used as 2.412GHz despite channel is something else than 1. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Run iwconfig in configuration where is a Cisco PCI 342 card. Actual Results: Despite the actual situation, iwconfig will show following parameters: Frequency:2.412GHz Sensitivity=0/65535 Noise level:-256 dBm Expected Results: Frequency must correspond to a channel and all other parameters are certainly not the constants. Additional info: # cat /proc/driver/aironet/eth2/Config Mode: ESS Radio: on NodeName: PowerMode: CAM DataRates: 2 4 11 22 0 0 0 0 Channel: 3 XmitPower: 30 LongRetryLimit: 16 ShortRetryLimit: 16 RTSThreshold: 2312 TXMSDULifetime: 5000 RXMSDULifetime: 10000 TXDiversity: left RXDiversity: left FragThreshold: 2312 WEP: open Modulation: cck Preamble: short # cat /proc/driver/aironet/eth2/Status Status: CFG ACT SYN LNK Mode: 3f Signal Strength: 45 Signal Quality: 4 SSID: test AP: Freq: 0 BitRate: 11mbs Driver Version: airo.c 0.3 (Ben Reed & Javier Achirica) Device: 340 Series Manufacturer: Cisco Systems Firmware Version: 3.93 Radio type: 2 Country: 0 Hardware Version: 20 Software Version: 393 Software Subversion: 0 Boot block version: 143
That is a kernel bug in what the driver is reporting, AFAIK.
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