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Bug#772855: installation-reports: unable to connect to a wifi network on channel 13



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On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 19:28 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I downloaded Debian 7.7 installation image[1].
> 
> I followed the installation procedure and chose wlan0 networki interface
> when asked to configure the primary network interface. Then there was no
> WLAN on the list of availble networks. It appeared after I changed
> channel on my AP from 13 to 1.
> 
> I suspect the reason of this problem MAY be the default regulatory
> settings of wifi stack/card driver in the Linux kernel if it is prepared
> for the USA where, according to Wikipedia[2], the channel may be used
> only under certain conditions.
> 
> [1] debian-7.7.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso (md5 afc576c3886f9abab9ba886c4cd51a88) 
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels

The default is to use the 'world' regulatory domain, not the US domain.
This still allows scanning for and using an AP on all channels; it just
doesn't allow transmissions above channel 11 until an AP is found.

However this might be overridden based on the country setting of the
wireless network adapter.  Or a particular driver might not implement
the regulations correctly.

Please specify what wireless network adapter you are using (if it's
something built in and you don't know, lspci or lsusb will help to
identify it).

Also please provide the system log from the installer.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?

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