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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote:
> I am trying to set up a 5GHz wireless access point on an Alix 3d2 board w=
ith an AR9220 (ath9k "Merlin") PCI card. I have done so successfully using =
Fedora 14 on identical hardware but I would greatly prefer to use Gentoo so=
 I can use a more recent kernel and customize things appropriately for the =
platform.

It seems like everything is pretty much the same, other than the
kernel (and presumably the ath9k driver). But I would look at the udev
rules for CRDA to be sure they match and are being applied the same on
both systems. You shouldn't ever need to "iw reg set" on a system with
CRDA, it should do it for you. So I wonder if you're setting it, and
then CRDA is immediately setting it back to 00...