Frederik wrote: > > 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.
In SoftMAC, the regulatory domain code defaulted to the Japanese standard and allowed channels 1-14. As I said earlier, mac80211 defaults to the FCC standard with channels 1-11. If you want to use channels 12 or 13, you need to load mac80211 with an 'ieee80211_regdom = 64' option to allow the extra channels. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
