Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote: > So I bought another Lenovo Thinkpad laptop recently. (I like them, they > work well with Linux, they're solidly built.) > > After having some minor annoyances with the Broadcom wireless in my > previous thinkpad, this time I ordered one with an Intel wireless chip > that'd be well supported in Linux. > > However once the laptop arrived, I discovered that the Intel option > doesn't support the 5GHz band, which I really need at home.
The Intel 5300 wireless card in my Lenovo X200 laptop supports the 5GHz band, or at least claims to when I run iwlist wlan0 freq. Do you have up to date wireless firmware loaded? Under Debian it's in the firmware-iwlwifi (non-free) package; it may be included in the kernel package by some distributions. Checking the specs of the card would confirm it, of course. Mine is not a new laptop, so I would expect more recent models to support the 5GHz band too. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
