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IN NO EVENT SHALL 21.\" THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, 22.\" OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 23.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 24.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER 25.\" IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 26.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 27.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. 28.\" 29.\" $FreeBSD: src/tools/tools/ath/athrd/athrd.1,v 1.2 2009/01/29 23:24:21 sam Exp $ 30.\"/ 31.Dd January 27, 2009 32.Dt ATHRD 1 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm athrd 36.Nd list channels and transmit power for a country/regulatory domain 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl aedlpcfr4ABGT 40.Op Fl m Ar mode 41.Bk 42.Op Ar country 43.Ek 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45.Nm 46displays the list of frequencies and the associated maximum transmit 47power permitted within a regulatory domain and/or country. 48.Pp 49If no command line options are given, a default country (\c 50.Ql US ) 51is used. 52Country and regulatory names are case insensitive. 53.Pp 54The following options are available: 55.Bl -tag -width indent 56.It Fl a 57By default 58.Nm 59will display B channels only if they are not also marked as available for 60use as G channels and similary for A and T channels. 61With this option 62.Nm 63will list all channels. 64.It Fl e 65Calculate channels not assuming extended channel mode. 66.It Fl d 67Enabling debugging in the HAL code that calculates the available channels 68and transmit power values. 69.It Fl l 70Provide a list of all known country and regulatory domain names. 71.It Fl m Ar mode 72Calculate channels and transmit power for operation in 73.Ql mode ; 74one of 75.Ql station , 76.Ql ibss , 77.Ql monitor , 78and 79.Ql ap 80(or the first two letters). 81.It Fl p 82Mark passive scan channels with lower case letters and active 83scan channels with upper case letters. 84.It Fl r 85Mark channels that require DFS with a 86.Ql * . 87.It Fl 4 88Mark channels that have a 4ms packet limit with a 89.Ql 4 . 90.It Fl c 91Display IEEE channel numbers instead of frequencies. 92.It Fl f 93Display frequencies (default). 94.It Fl A 95Display only 11A channels. 96.It Fl B 97Display only 11B channels. 98.It Fl G 99Display only 11G channels. 100.It Fl T 101Display only Turbo channels. 102.El 103.Sh EXAMPLES 104The following demonstrates how to list the permissible frequencies 105and maximum transport power per channel for use in Spain: 106.Pp 107.nf 108tubby% athrd es 109\& 110SPAIN (ES, 0x2d4, 724) NULL1_WORLD (0x3, 3) 1112412G 14.0 2417G 14.0 2422G 14.0 2427G 17.0 2432G 14.0 2437G 17.0 1122442G 14.0 2447G 17.0 2452G 17.0 2457G 14.0 2462G 17.0 113.fi 114.Pp 115Each frequency has a suffix that is one of: 116.Ql G , 117.Ql B , 118.Ql A , 119or 120.Ql T 121according to whether the channel is usable with 802.11g, 802.11b, 122802.11a, or Atheros Turbo mode. 123All channels listed as 124.Ql G 125are also usable in 126.Ql B . 127Likewise, all channels listed as 128.Ql A 129are usable in 130.Ql T . 131Channels listed as 132.Ql B 133or 134.Ql T 135are only usable in those modes. 136(Note that when the 137.Fl p 138option is specified passive scan channels are marked with a lower case 139.Ql g , 140.Ql b , 141.Ql a , 142or 143.Ql t .) 144The transmit power is given in units of dbM. 145.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 146Various diagnostics about unknown regulatory domains and/or country 147codes may be encountered. 148Use the 149.Fl l 150option for a list of valid names. 151.Sh SEE ALSO 152.Xr ath 4 , 153.Xr ath_hal 4 154.Sh STANDARDS 155Lots belong here. 156.Sh NOTES 157.Nm 158use the HAL to calculate the set of channels. 159The transmit power calculations are done by emulating 160how the HAL works. 161Because 162.Nm 163does not 164read the actual EEPROM contents from a device this emulation may lag 165behind current practice. 166.Sh BUGS 167The HAL reset logic should be used to calculate the transmit power 168for each channel instead of using a separate copy of the code. 169The data presented by 170.Nm 171are the expected values; for compliance testing one must measure the actual 172operation of the driver and the HAL. 173