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solex

Member

Registered: 2009-08-29

Posts: 2

Wifi driver doesn't see my AP anymore. Very weird.

For some reason my wifi driver refuses to see my home AP. The strange thing is that it sees every other AP around. And that all other computers (including another Arch notebook and this notebook booted to Windows) detect my home AP perfectly.

'iwlist scanning' shows other networks, but not the one I'm looking for, though it's the closest one.
Reloading module didn't help. Neither did rebooting.
Everything worked yesterday (as it was before), and I don't recall that I've made an update or something.

The computer is HP Mini-Note 2133. Broadcom BCM412 driver.
I have both "wl" and  "lib80211_crypt_tkip" drivers enabled.
Both 'ssb' and'b43' are blacklisted

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks!

Last edited by solex (2009-09-17 20:31:19)

masterkoppa

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 92

Re: Wifi driver doesn't see my AP anymore. Very weird.

Sorry for sounding so noobish, but try to get a near as posible to the router and scan. Also (since you mentioned you have another laptop) try them both side to side and see the results.

If you still can't get a connection post the iwlist scan output.

blasse

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 303

Re: Wifi driver doesn't see my AP anymore. Very weird.

What wifi channel do you use in router? If you are in country where regulations allows use of channels 12 & 13 your router may use them while in Arch you have to enable them manually.

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