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 1O3z4x-0001kQ-RZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:04:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 730A1E0A02; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3251DE0A02 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so2842863wyj.40 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:04:08 -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=yqiLk1ZjSFUkfKC6XB/lPjumFUMbVaA3rts03BwaxjU=; b=yICLVoYMU5vgQpOVVkGJp9Xma0anuwyK0b/lW5txogPhILoboPs/nNmKkRgGDiBlZO N4DXi1lvSLn30ZHz52So4Q2DIV1W+InGUszwuCRkfltZ1eWd7WDvohfj+uqm4B1v/8tx 54qupc5/TlN6PLYEy9EQZ6+NFsJDp+ec4txpM= 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=DJvzBmUpvNjnRLM5+jmmY21uDX0/XjUIFANKxjkH9HyUkdZ7EbFKgNDLCIBUi72Kee G3qh+5eixcMTwV+2WdHRbWakXToqJAaGG6SKo5LWfNpQvdSVQIyEES/3HOpplL/+EsMM JKXY+pBDszZU1zFkCdJnetUmc96J2UO+3a3lw= Received: by 10.216.88.134 with SMTP id a6mr939465wef.66.1271714648547; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x14sm51939209wbs.6.2010.04.19.15.04.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:04:07 -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 23:03:44 +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> <201004192024.19943.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201004192024.19943.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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="nextPart1327169.K6Npd1OgcQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004192304.07431.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7fe199cc-05c2-4b9b-855c-6bee3dc973ed X-Archives-Hash: d3ecea9ab044701a0debbe285cf3e715 --nextPart1327169.K6Npd1OgcQ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 19 April 2010 20:24:18 you wrote: > 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. :-( > > > > 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. > > > > 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. >=20 > I've set it up for UK so it has 13 channels. On the other hand your hint > pointed me to wpa_supplicant.conf on my laptop, in which I had the country > parameter commented out. I set that up to UK, but it still seems to show > 11 channels. :-( >=20 > I'll reboot later to see if it makes any odds. No change :-( # iwlist wlan0 channel =20 wlan0 11 channels in total; available frequencies : Channel 01 : 2.412 GHz Channel 02 : 2.417 GHz Channel 03 : 2.422 GHz Channel 04 : 2.427 GHz Channel 05 : 2.432 GHz Channel 06 : 2.437 GHz Channel 07 : 2.442 GHz Channel 08 : 2.447 GHz Channel 09 : 2.452 GHz Channel 10 : 2.457 GHz Channel 11 : 2.462 GHz Current Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Short of hacking the firmware (which even if I knew how to, I am not allowe= d)=20 or waiting for the linux driver to mature, I am not sure if there's anythin= g I=20 can do. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1327169.K6Npd1OgcQ 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkvM01cACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZd1ACfToYgf/yPvz5oxUBr5n+zeYVs cuwAoKbrzs1eM54NYNYvSglvXMxv5Ah0 =jgUx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1327169.K6Npd1OgcQ--