Re: [REGRESSION] BCM4306 cannot associate with any version of b43driver

From: Frederik Himpe
Date: Thu Apr 03 2008 - 13:47:34 EST


On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:15:52 -0400, Gabriel A. Devenyi wrote:

> I feel I have to escalate this regression to the mailing lists because
> I've had no response on the kernel bugzilla from quite some time now.
>
> With the release of the b43 driver, my card can no longer associate with
> its AP. I've been testing with 2.6.24 and the wireless-git tree hoping
> that someone would fix it, but I've had no requests for testing and no
> response.
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9987

Is your AP using channel 13 or something like that by any chance?
Then you'll need to load mac80211 with the option ieee80211_regdom=64 to
make this work. Add

options mac80211 ieee80211_regdom=64

to modprobe.conf and reload the mac80211 module.

--
Frederik Himpe

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