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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday 19 April 2010 18:26:14 Stroller wrote: |
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>> On 18 Apr 2010, at 23:35, Mick wrote: |
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>> > ... |
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>> > OK, I found what the problem was ... the AP is currently transmitting |
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>> > on channel 13, which it seems is outside the capabilities of the b43 |
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>> > driver. I am blaming the driver here because the Windows 7 OS has no |
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>> > problem using channel 13, while iwlist wlan0 in Gentoo shows only up |
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>> > to channel 11. :-( |
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>> There might be an option to change the region of your wifi NIC. |
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>> Channels 12 & 13 are legal in Europe, IIRC, but not in the USA. |
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>> You should be able to change the channel of the AP - typically they |
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>> have a drop-down which will choose either "auto" or a specific |
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>> channel. Likewise I have seen some APs ask what region you're in when |
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>> they're first setup. |
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> I've set it up for UK so it has 13 channels. On the other hand your hint |
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> pointed me to wpa_supplicant.conf on my laptop, in which I had the country |
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> parameter commented out. I set that up to UK, but it still seems to show 11 |
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> channels. :-( |
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> I'll reboot later to see if it makes any odds. |
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I think the proper country code is GB not UK, maybe that's why it didn't work. |
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With iw try: |
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iw reg set GB |
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or in your wpa_supplicant config: |
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country=GB |
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