Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 15:41:26 Steffen Loos wrote: > > I guess country 00 means no country code? > > Just try to set up "ieee80211_regdom=EU" for module "cfg80211". > > ---8<--- > # modprobe -v cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-tuxonice-r5/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-21 Thread Steffen Loos
# 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 19 Apr 2010, at 23:03, Mick wrote: ... 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 spe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
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 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 dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:25:14 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick 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 wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On 20 April 2010 02:27, Paul Hartman wrote: > I think the proper country code is GB not UK, maybe that's why it didn't work. > > With iw try: > > iw reg set GB > > or in your wpa_supplicant config: > > country=GB > > Thanks Paul, good pointer. It seems that the UK also has GB as well 'UK' as its

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Mick 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 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-19 Thread Mick
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 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-19 Thread Mick
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 W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-19 Thread Stroller
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-18 Thread Mick
On 18 April 2010 22:28, Mick 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 g