Non-US channels on Netgear WG511T

[dleh]

Hi all, first post here. I've a fresh Puppy 4.1.1 install on my old Sony F403 laptop. I'm trying to configure a Netgear WG511T wireless pcmcia card but it only works if I change the router's config to broadcast on a channel number between 1 and 11.

Neither the Scan or manually entering the channel and frequency in the network wizard will enable it to work with channel 13 which is what my network is normally configured with.

Is there something I can do to force the ath_pci module to work with European channels?

[Béèm]

I don't know if the ath-pci module can be forced higher than 11.
What I would do is use pwireless and see which access point you see.
See which channel from 1 11 is still free.
Configure your access point to that channel and the wifi card can probably be configured correctly.

[dleh]

I found how to make it work (manually at least)

I first removed the ath_pci module with 'rmmod ath_pci'

Then I reloaded it with the correct country code option:
modprobe ath_pci countrycode=826
(826 is the code for UK)

Now it recognises channel 12 and 13.

I guess to automate this I need to add something to /etc/modprobe.conf. Anybody know what the syntax would be?

[Béèm]

Put modprobe ath_pci countrycode=826 in rc.local. It's loaded at every boot then.

[dleh]

I thought about doing that but wondered whether it was a good idea for the odd occasion I boot without the wireless card installed (I have a normal ethernet card too).

In the end I found that if I simply added

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options ath_pci countrycode=826

to /etc/modprobe.conf that did the trick.