From f6b1154678ec73f7dd9a9fab16b402966305d452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislaw Gruszka Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:51:24 -0700 Subject: iwlwifi: add option to disable 5GHz band There are various problems happened on 5GHz band not observed on 2.4 GHz (microcode errors, queue stuck, etc... ) . Also roaming between 5GHz AP and 2GHz does not work very well. To workaround the problems add option to disable 5GHz support. This will help on environments where APs are dual-band, and devices will not try to associate on band where issues happen. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy --- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c index 430cca56a7e7..3c72bad0ae56 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c @@ -1012,3 +1012,7 @@ module_param_named(auto_agg, iwlwifi_mod_params.auto_agg, bool, S_IRUGO); MODULE_PARM_DESC(auto_agg, "enable agg w/o check traffic load (default: enable)"); + +module_param_named(5ghz_disable, iwlwifi_mod_params.disable_5ghz, + bool, S_IRUGO); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(5ghz_disable, "disable 5GHz band (default: 0 [enabled])"); -- cgit v1.2.3