On 18 April 2010 22:28, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last night I was connected wirelessly to my access point and all worked fine. > 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). I > decided to shut it down and go to bed. > > Today the AP is just not there! Not there as far as this stupid broadcom > wireless NIC is concerned. The same machine booted into MSWindows has no > problem seeing the AP and associating with it. Another 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?! I am lost as to what might be causing this. > > Could it be some lock file that was not removed when the machine is rebooted > or the wlan0 interface taken down? Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this?
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. -- Regards, Mick
