Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#4459 closed defect (fixed)

frequency_to_channel() needs to include 5 GHz channels

Reported by: greenfeld Owned by: erikos
Priority: Urgent Milestone: Unspecified
Component: Sugar Version: 0.98.x
Severity: Critical Keywords: AU1B
Cc: JerryV Distribution/OS: OLPC
Bug Status: New

Description

frequency_to_channel() in src/jarabe/model/network.py needs to include a list of 5 GHz channels in addition to its' 2.4 GHz ones.

A list can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels

Seen in OLPC 13.1.0 os34.

Attachments (2)

4459.patch (2.9 KB) - added by erikos 11 years ago.
Based on nm_utils_wifi_freq_to_channel from NM add a table to support a band (5GHz)
4459_098.patch (2.9 KB) - added by erikos 11 years ago.
Patch against 0.98 (tested on 13.2.0)

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Change History (8)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by JerryV

  • Bug Status changed from Unconfirmed to New
  • Cc JerryV added
  • Keywords Australia added
  • Priority changed from Unspecified by Maintainer to Urgent
  • Severity changed from Unspecified to Critical

We are using XO-4 with the newer 5Ghz cards with some schools are only offering 5Ghz APs

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by godiard

  • Keywords AU1B added; Australia removed

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by erikos

Looking at the 5GHz table I find it hard to know which of the channels are important to support. It is probably safe to get the tables from NetworkManager's util function. I will cook a patch for it.

Changed 11 years ago by erikos

Based on nm_utils_wifi_freq_to_channel from NM add a table to support a band (5GHz)

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by erikos

Jerry (or anyone else with 5GHz infrastructure) can you test the patch attached?

Changed 11 years ago by erikos

Patch against 0.98 (tested on 13.2.0)

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by godiard

Thanks erikos, will add to our rpms, and request test.

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by walter

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

I tested this at the OLPC office. Seems to work well.

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