On Nov 27, 2007 10:50 PM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >
> > every 5 seconds. After changing channel to 1 b43 connected to my AP
> > again. So it looks for me like problem with connecting to AP working
> > on high channel. Could someone with 4318 check how it works for your
> > broadcom?
>
> What happens if you use channel 11 rather than 13? The standard regulatory 
> code used by mac80211 is
> set for FCC rules - i.e. channels 1-11. If you didn't change that, your 
> driver would not be able to
> transmit on channel 13. It seems that it is receiving though.

Well, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels,
channel 13 would be permitted in Europe (where I live). So mac80211
will never permit this, even if it's legal to use?

I am having the same problem connecting to my wireless access point on
channel 13: iwlist scan finds the device, but any attempt to
associate, times out. I'm not sure if this would be a hardware
limitation, or rather something in the firmware or driver preventing
this. I have one machine (Apple Powermac G4), where I cannot associate
to this AP, neither with bcm43xx, neither with b43. I'm not sure if
this would be a hardware limitation, the firmware, or the Linux driver
who is responsible.

On another machine (i386 with a Broadcom based pc card), I succeed in
associating to the access point on channel 13 with bcm43xx, but it
fails with b43.

Well, even in Windows using channel 13 is confusing: with a Windows
machine having an Intel wireless chipset, with the default Windows
utility, it fails to associate, but with the wireless tools from
Intel, it succeeds...

Maybe I should try with another channel soon to verify if that's
really the reason why it does not work.

-- 
Frederik
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