Channel number detection

[Tim (PassMark)]

There was a bug with the 802.11a channel conversion, there is a new build that should correct the problem so the channel is displayed in the list, http://www.passmark.com/ftp/wirelessmon2beta7.exe.

Any channels on the 5Ghz band will be placed in the "other" category for the channel graph.

[johan]

5 GHz channel numbers

channel 40 558 in wirelessmon
104 622
108 626
128 646
140 658

looks like simple substraction of 518 will give the right number
small bug ?

[johan]

5 GHz wrong channel number

On 2,4 Ghz the channel numbers are ok
on 5 GHz however there are some strange things
I do have an AP at 5500 MHz ( channel 100) and wirelessmon give channel 618
Do you know this problem ?
Radio card is a CM9 of Wistron. Atheros based

[Tim (PassMark)]

Hi Michael,

Is it just with this specific access point that the channel is not returned or with all access points? Please let us know if changing the channel on the access point affects it at all.

It seems the network card isn't returning a frequency and therefore the channel won't be able to be determined.

[tvhawaii]

Nice program...congrats.

I have a Linksys WRT54G AP and an Avaya (Orinoco) Worldcard Silver.
The Summary screen shows Ch.0 and Freq. 0.
The Channel Use mouseover shows Other.
The AP list at the bottom shows Ch. 15.

The WRT54 is set to Ch. 1 and detected as that by NetStumbler.
I haven't tried changing channels on the Linksys yet, but will do that when I have some more time tomorrow.

--Michael