Bug 105554

Summary:	channel locked with wireless network configuration
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Martin Vidner <mvidner>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	All
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Ivo van Doorn 2005-08-18 14:48:34 UTC

When configuring the wireless network card the channel setting is locked to 
Automatic when the operation mode is set to "Managed". 
But even for Managed mode it might be usefull to allow the user to set a 
specific channel since this would force the module not to automaticly connect 
to Access Points that are not on the requested channel.

Comment 1 Martin Vidner 2005-08-18 15:01:08 UTC

Unfortunately the drivers do not support it. See bug 88530.

Comment 2 Ivo van Doorn 2005-08-18 15:31:00 UTC

Not all drivers ignore it.   
I am a developer of the rt2x00 project and those drivers do support channel  
switching in managed mode and uses this value to optimize the search for a  
valid access point. 
But since rt2x00 2.0.0 hasn't been released yet, there is indeed no point of 
allowing the channels to be set in managed mode..;)