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On 19/08/2013 00:13, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> That's really odd. But then, it's a firmware driven NIC, who knows what
> kind of weird crap is going on under the hood.

Yes, it's a black box. So how do I get in contact with intel support and
dump that in their laps?

> Maybe you could experiment by looking at what changing the regulatory
> domain does when programming the firmware and see if it's a channel thing,
> a regulatory domain thing or something else.

It looks like anything that results in regdomain FCC is all right.
Everything else blows up.

> Sorry, I don't have the cycles to try and fix wpi issues. ;(

How would you go about debugging a firmware blob any way?

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