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

[Mick]

On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:25:14 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.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.
-- 
Regards,
Mick