On 17 June 2016 at 15:11, John D. Baker <jdba...@mylinuxisp.com> wrote: >> This might be a case of a network using 40MHz wide channel. I have >> personally experienced the same. it's faster for 802.11n, but it drops >> legacy support for 802.11b/g, which uses 20MHz wide channels. > > I think this is unlikely since the Mac PowerBook G4 w/MacOS X 10.4.11 > worked fine and its factory-original "airport" card is 802.11b only. > If I'd had a way to boot NetBSD/macppc on it I could have tested that > combination as well.
Yes. They are associating (if that's the correct word) - a tcpdump shows traffic from everyone else. I'll try the tip of the 7.x branch, thanks. (at least I wasn't going crazy :-) > Also, the other devices (802.11a/b/g) were able to associate with the > access point (status went from "no network" to "active"). If there > was no support for b/g, I should think that wouldn't be possible.
