On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I think the proper country code is GB not UK, maybe that's why it didn't work. With iw try: iw reg set GB or in your wpa_supplicant config: country=GB
