Can't seem to use 5GHz APs with Intel wireless

Christoph Moench-Tegeder cmt at burggraben.net
Sun Jun 3 17:44:08 UTC 2018


## Adam (amvandemore at gmail.com):

> > 3. ifconfing wlan0 scan still doesn't show my 5Ghz only APs (at least some
> > I tested)
> 
> I don't believe the iwn driver is capable of 5gz.  At least mine doesn't
> work on CURRENT.

The iwn driver has code for 5GHz (I've no idea if that's complete).
But looking at that reminded me: there are many "iwn" devices, including
some having "BGN" appended to their names - I'd guess those devices
don't support 5GHz aka 11a mode.

Regards,
Christoph

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