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 1O3dZg-0007N4-Jr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:06:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BAFFE0BA4 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:06:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f217.google.com (mail-bw0-f217.google.com [209.85.218.217]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FA9E0D7B for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:35:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so4045579bwz.29 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:35:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=anyrsOeN6T14w+0j4AipQOMqm+wG75KNY811WMWc3rU=; b=Ho4vP6HfxnUfluiUGh6ab6hDudf20v7vO1wcRz9JhkJmxF9CVK1FGfmiZ0uoZzfbXb OXeFEfKhY2WJk6W/dyXbKPe/fvXZftyrjlwmqxenlFb0sA+A4f6TaL+m/79COXlGQ0g6 ZHrVv5R798u94OJV7EEqO7E6Dsm40cTgQTGho= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=x9jEKUr87dV48A6cJkqORO4fwFByNARR2AcYY4dOESZGvKuKgevaSOHO0BYZWHV0mY QY9yt557JtpZyHrx72TRoQb55iGzC1N9Ee7xCtE5SjGAsDRtWrv8TcJM1Zvk8eemEykU T5GO5x+v1PxS8gJi88JOQ/SLTRWQNA87xdJNg= 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 Received: by 10.103.223.15 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:35:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201004182228.10580.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201004182228.10580.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:35:56 +0100 Received: by 10.102.15.39 with SMTP id 39mr2993642muo.76.1271630156992; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP? From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 7f958ee3-05b5-43d3-a575-56ba45c7dee5 X-Archives-Hash: e5104b98b8045fec610c658fbf93c368 On 18 April 2010 22:28, Mick wrote: > Last night I was connected wirelessly to my access point and all worked f= ine. > Well, towards the end the connection was bobbing up and down as far as my > unreliable broadcom NIC is concerned (nothing wrong with the router). =A0= I > decided to shut it down and go to bed. > > Today the AP is just not there! =A0Not there as far as this stupid broadc= om > wireless NIC is concerned. =A0The same machine booted into MSWindows has = no > problem seeing the AP and associating with it. =A0Another laptop can also= see > the AP and connect to it. > > How come the broadcom cannot see it in Gentoo, but it can see all the > neighbours APs which have a much weaker signal and even associate and get= an > IP address from one of them?! =A0I am lost as to what might be causing th= is. > > Could it be some lock file that was not removed when the machine is reboo= ted > or the wlan0 interface taken down? =A0Any ideas how I can troubleshoot th= is? 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. :-( Will need to wait for the driver to hopefully improve. --=20 Regards, Mick