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