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

From: Goran_Mekić <meka_at_tilda.center>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:39:55 UTC 
On 9/30/25 01:05, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 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
>
I used terminology found in ifconfig(8). Search for "mode mode" in that 
man page, so I really wasn't trying to be smart. Does it mean that man 
page needs an update?

Anyway, I guess being tired from EuroBSDCon trip back home made me 
forget post the mandatory data, so I appologize. I run 15.0-RELEASE and 
the card is

# pciconf -lv iwlwifi0@pci0:1:0:0:
iwlwifi0@pci0:1:0:0:    class=0x028000 rev=0x1a hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 
device=0x2725 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0024
     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
     device     = 'Wi-Fi 6E(802.11ax) AX210/AX1675* 2x2 [Typhoon Peak]'
     class      = network

Is it new enough?

Regards,
meka