Well now I'm very confused. I easily connected to the iphone
hotspot, both in "ensure compatibility" mode and in regular
mode without "ensure compatibility".
I can't explain my earlier inability to connect. Maybe I
mistyped the password?
iwm0: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4> mtu 1500
lladdr 14:ab:c5:59:a2:c2
index 1 priority 4 llprio 3
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (HT-MCS0 mode 11n)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid Dekdu chan 6 bssid 0e:e3:8b:a9:60:9b 95% wpakey
wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk,sha256-psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp
inet 172.20.10.2 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 172.20.10.15
I know that my home wifi combines the 2.5 and 5G channels under
a single nwid. It has the option of separating them but
there's a note in the app saying it's recommended to keep them
together. Maybe I should separate them and see if my openbsd
box can connect to the 2.5G one once it's separated?
Should OpenBSD be able to connect to a 5G wifi channel normally?
On Sun, Sep 27, 2026 at 12:48:31AM +0000, Lloyd wrote:
> Ed Heil wrote:
>
> > This is the first thing I've tried of the suggestions
> > just made, and it actually worked -- I successfully
> > connected to the Macbook's hotspot, *and received an
> > IP address* from it.
>
> > ieee80211: nwid macbookhotspot chan 11 bssid 46:10:99:81:26:34 95%
>
> --------------------------------------^^
>
> The Macbook created a 2.4GHz hotspot to which you could connect
> successfully.
>
> Can you confirm you claim earlier you could NOT connect to an iPhone
> hotspot? If so, I suspect the iPhone and ISP router are creating
> 5 GHz access points and therein lies the problem.
>
> You can test this easily on the iPhone by toggling between 2.4 and
> 5 GHz mode... the knob is intended for idiots and thus labeled poorly
> like "ensure compatibility" or something but that's what it does...
>
> Regards
> Lloyd
>
>
