Can't see the wifi of my home, but neighbor's only

[kriptomahsun]

Neighbor's router is just more walls ahead, but the laptop sees that. But not my own router. Interesting, it doesn't sit more than 10 meters from me. But it won't see it. How to make it see? I use a Dell Inspiron 15 7559, with intel 3165.

iwm0@pci0:5:0:0:    class=0x028000 rev=0x79 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x3165 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x4410
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Wireless 3165'
    class      = network

Otherwise this laptop works well. Keyboard sound up/down works well. Touchpad works.

 

[Phishfry]

How are you scanning? Perhaps your Wireless AP is 2.4ghz and neighbors is 5ghz.
Or you have bad settings and are connecting to neighbors Open Wireless connection.

Sometimes net-mgmt/networkmgr does not show both frequencies AP.

Try this to scan from command prompt or terminal window: ifconfig wlan0 scan

 

[kriptomahsun]

How are you scanning? Perhaps your Wireless AP is 2.4ghz and neighbors is 5ghz.
Or you have bad settings and are connecting to neighbors Open Wireless connection.

Sometimes net-mgmt/networkmgr does not show both frequencies AP.

Try this to scan from command prompt or terminal window: ifconfig wlan0 scan

This is actually Wifi 5 card, but it doesn't see the 5Ghz networks somehow.

 

[shurik]

FreeBSD supports only 802.11a 5GHz networks. Try to limit your AP's channel width to VHT20 and bind to specific channel (52 for example). To get supported channel list run

ifconfig wlan0 list channels

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