On Tuesday 20 April 2010 22:24:41 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:25:14 Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hmm, it's stuck in US mode for some reason. Firmware? > > > > Maybe you're right, I googled and found some info that the old > > broadcom driver didn't support channels 12 and 13 for some reason with > > certain hardware. However, it appears b43 is the "old" driver, and the > > new one which should support those channels and setting regulatory > > domain is the Broadcom STA driver, which is in portage for ~x86 and > > ~amd64 (net-wireless/broadcom-sta). Try to emerge it, blacklist your > > old b43 driver and hope it works. :) > > Thanks Paul. This is confusing me ... I thought that the b43 (as opposed > to the legacy bcm43xx) is the latest in kernel driver and that's why I > chose it. It is probably still under development. > > I am just emerging gentoo-sources-2.6.33-r1 and I'll see if the situation > improves. Otherwise I will have to remove it and emerge the proprietary > drivers instead, until the b43 matures a bit more.
OK, the 2.6.33-r1 seems better so far:
# iwlist wlan0 freq
wlan0 14 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
Channel 12 : 2.467 GHz
Channel 13 : 2.472 GHz
Channel 14 : 2.484 GHz
Current Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
and
# iw list
Wiphy phy0
Band 1:
Frequencies:
* 2412 MHz [1] (20.0 dBm)
* 2417 MHz [2] (20.0 dBm)
* 2422 MHz [3] (20.0 dBm)
* 2427 MHz [4] (20.0 dBm)
* 2432 MHz [5] (20.0 dBm)
* 2437 MHz [6] (20.0 dBm)
* 2442 MHz [7] (20.0 dBm)
* 2447 MHz [8] (20.0 dBm)
* 2452 MHz [9] (20.0 dBm)
* 2457 MHz [10] (20.0 dBm)
* 2462 MHz [11] (20.0 dBm)
* 2467 MHz [12] (20.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
* 2472 MHz [13] (20.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
* 2484 MHz [14] (20.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
# iw reg get
country 00:
(2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 20)
(2457 - 2482 @ 20), (6, 20), PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS
(2474 - 2494 @ 20), (6, 20), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS
(5170 - 5250 @ 40), (6, 20), PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS
(5735 - 5835 @ 40), (6, 20), PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS
I guess country 00 means no country code?
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Regards,
Mick
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