From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O3waX-0000RJ-62 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:24:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED3E5E09A5; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABEB7E09A5 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb28 with SMTP id 28so238953wwb.40 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:24:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=SFC/HJSaeeQlUWxmfV2t9K884iX6eu0XhtAhkztabwA=; b=gGwy48NWInogoFHBLGBpxA+SSfL56Jgqo7UeAJHZRIOYH0JyJZ0h/j5Erb/Ie0JnI0 DGgaH/Kv5ErTIWNio2aFMN6qdYjg5hSOLyBEgC8DYrUjhbsshxwvM2PLOCYhJD88hI1d 4M6qlkVkuVDdrMPRqnl7e5bdoEeV3DLcLQHZ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=cZdX7vyzLZ4nsRDw3Jryi5pu+xQxRSoWpZENlzo3hzR6lO6N7nMRasSmOJaHrj/eBQ Rund2okw/IlnVLr2kE74KHkciM32C2VaZ4fE4zoZMQvD9KsFeF5W/AU/4mOihwqZhwHq V6p37GtO2yN+3mCvd7OeKquHL4tRIHSiu5qHE= Received: by 10.216.90.133 with SMTP id e5mr764725wef.23.1271705061839; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x14sm50937029wbs.18.2010.04.19.12.24.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:24:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP? Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:24:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-gentoo-r8; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201004182228.10580.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <1745500F-57FA-45AE-AC3C-5828481F024E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1745500F-57FA-45AE-AC3C-5828481F024E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart423915407.ngjhEcn4jM"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004192024.19943.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: df74a6de-c0ed-443d-9c22-0d2836630f8c X-Archives-Hash: a35a3a51bcde8a54080a1f377292ea6e --nextPart423915407.ngjhEcn4jM Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 19 April 2010 18:26:14 Stroller wrote: > On 18 Apr 2010, at 23:35, Mick wrote: > > ... > > OK, I found what the problem was ... the AP is currently transmitting > > on channel 13, which it seems is outside the capabilities of the b43 > > driver. I am blaming the driver here because the Windows 7 OS has no > > problem using channel 13, while iwlist wlan0 in Gentoo shows only up > > to channel 11. :-( >=20 > There might be an option to change the region of your wifi NIC. > Channels 12 & 13 are legal in Europe, IIRC, but not in the USA. >=20 > You should be able to change the channel of the AP - typically they > have a drop-down which will choose either "auto" or a specific > channel. Likewise I have seen some APs ask what region you're in when > they're first setup. I've set it up for UK so it has 13 channels. On the other hand your hint=20 pointed me to wpa_supplicant.conf on my laptop, in which I had the country= =20 parameter commented out. I set that up to UK, but it still seems to show 1= 1=20 channels. :-( I'll reboot later to see if it makes any odds. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart423915407.ngjhEcn4jM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkvMreMACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZSpACfTYB3yfyFOrSBe169a+O5ti2n P/cAoIgfMFW6WmHA3XETJsOefvWzbmBu =6euR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart423915407.ngjhEcn4jM--