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On Tuesday 20 April 2010 22:24:41 Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:25:14 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > Hmm, it's stuck in US mode for some reason. Firmware? |
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> > |
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> > Maybe you're right, I googled and found some info that the old |
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> > broadcom driver didn't support channels 12 and 13 for some reason with |
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> > certain hardware. However, it appears b43 is the "old" driver, and the |
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> > new one which should support those channels and setting regulatory |
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> > domain is the Broadcom STA driver, which is in portage for ~x86 and |
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> > ~amd64 (net-wireless/broadcom-sta). Try to emerge it, blacklist your |
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> > old b43 driver and hope it works. :) |
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> Thanks Paul. This is confusing me ... I thought that the b43 (as opposed |
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> to the legacy bcm43xx) is the latest in kernel driver and that's why I |
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> chose it. It is probably still under development. |
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> I am just emerging gentoo-sources-2.6.33-r1 and I'll see if the situation |
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> improves. Otherwise I will have to remove it and emerge the proprietary |
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> drivers instead, until the b43 matures a bit more. |
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OK, the 2.6.33-r1 seems better so far: |
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# iwlist wlan0 freq |
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wlan0 14 channels in total; available frequencies : |
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Channel 01 : 2.412 GHz |
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Channel 02 : 2.417 GHz |
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Channel 03 : 2.422 GHz |
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Channel 04 : 2.427 GHz |
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Channel 05 : 2.432 GHz |
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Channel 06 : 2.437 GHz |
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Channel 07 : 2.442 GHz |
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Channel 08 : 2.447 GHz |
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Channel 09 : 2.452 GHz |
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Channel 10 : 2.457 GHz |
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Channel 11 : 2.462 GHz |
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Channel 12 : 2.467 GHz |
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Channel 13 : 2.472 GHz |
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Channel 14 : 2.484 GHz |
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Current Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) |
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and |
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# iw list |
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Wiphy phy0 |
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Band 1: |
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Frequencies: |
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* 2412 MHz [1] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2417 MHz [2] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2422 MHz [3] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2427 MHz [4] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2432 MHz [5] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2437 MHz [6] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2442 MHz [7] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2447 MHz [8] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2452 MHz [9] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2457 MHz [10] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2462 MHz [11] (20.0 dBm) |
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* 2467 MHz [12] (20.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS) |
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* 2472 MHz [13] (20.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS) |
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* 2484 MHz [14] (20.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS) |
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# iw reg get |
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country 00: |
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(2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 20) |
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(2457 - 2482 @ 20), (6, 20), PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS |
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(2474 - 2494 @ 20), (6, 20), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS |
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(5170 - 5250 @ 40), (6, 20), PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS |
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(5735 - 5835 @ 40), (6, 20), PASSIVE-SCAN, NO-IBSS |
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I guess country 00 means no country code? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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