Re: Weird (to me) state of iwlwifi 11a

On Mon, 29 Sep 2025, Goran Mekić wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After watching bz@ talk at this years EuroBSDCon, I learned that iwlwifi 
> supports 11a, but only on newer chipsets. My laptop connects only to 11ng, 
> but here's the weird thing: I see at least one WiFi network on channel 36 
> through "ifconfig wlan0 scan". I thought that 11a is required to see channel 
> 36, but as a total WiFi noob, I might be totally wrong. Anyway, my question 
> is how to check if my iwlwifi is new enough and why do I see network on 
> channel 36? Thank you!

s/11a/11n and 11ac/    a != ac

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7