ubuntu-7.10 and wireless channel search

[Derek Broughton]

Ed Arnold wrote:

> I'm a Ubuntu Newbie who just installed Ubuntu 7.10 on a Dell D810
> laptop, which has a Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG card.
> 
> This machine is dual-boot; the other OS is XP.  When I boot XP, I can
> change the channel number on my wireless router from 6 to 11, and XP's
> wireless driver sees the change and does the right thing.  (I really want
> to change to channel 11, because my neighbors are all crowded together on
> channel 6.)
> 
> When I boot Ubuntu, wireless works fine so long as my wireless router
> is set to channel 6.

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish - channel selection shouldn't
even be possible on the client.  You set your router to use a channel, and
the client adapts.  My router is on channel 11.
 
> My question is: how do I find out if the inability of Ubuntu's wireless
> driver to do channel search, is a problem already known to the Debian/
> Ubuntu developers?

I would guess it isn't - because, at least for some of us, that's not a
problem.

But now that you mention it, why on earth do both Network Manager and
iwconfig report your channel as a Frequency?  How difficult could it be to
map that to the channel set on the router?
-- 
derek