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Subject: Re: Channel interference scan and manual selection
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What model is the router?


-adrian

On 3 December 2013 18:11, Tek Wiz <tx2023@gmail.com> 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 <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> >> On 3 December 2013 17:50, Tek Wiz <tx2023@gmail.com> 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
>
>