Hi, iwn(4) can handle 5GHz channel by this patch. However, channel probably needs to be set manually.
Please try it. probably [snip] I tried iwn patch on a NetBSD 6.1.5 build from source pulled on September 9th, 2015 and was able to get 5ghz channels working. Initially wpa_supplicant would not associate with the AP, but as part of the test I set the channel and sometimes the media and was able to get wpa_supplicant to associate with a 802.11a AP. Plain old ifconfig by itself without any encryption also worked with 802.11a. After that I was able to unset the channel settings and the media type and wpa_supplicant still associated. I will know tomorrow what happens on a cold boot. I did not try 802.11n as 'ifconfig -m' claims that it isn't supported, however "wpa_cli scan_results" shows off the 802.11n SSIDs and I am pretty sure that the hardware I have can do 802.11n too. I noticed that a pull up request for NetBSD 7 was made, I would also request it for NetBSD 6, if possible. Thanks for the patch, -- Brad Spencer - [email protected] - KC8VKS http://anduin.eldar.org - & - http://anduin.ipv6.eldar.org [IPv6 only]
