In message <41DF1D7C.2030505@vmicrosistemas.com>, Francisco Valladolid writes:
>Hi, thanks.
>
>I'am running NetBSD 2.0_RC5 in this laptop,
>
>The output of   ifconfig wi0 is:
>
>wi0: flags =8863<UP, BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEXMULTICAST> mtu 1500
>    ssid linksys
>    powersave off
>    bssid 00:0c:41:67:95:d0 chan 6
>    address: <x:x:x:x:x>
>    media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11b (DS11)
>    status: active
>    inet 192.168.1.30 metmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>    inet6 <xxxxx>
>

I'd try 'ifconfig wi0 -chan' -- when you have an access point, you see 
the channel on the access point, and the client nodes find the beacons 
on different channels automatically.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb