On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, co...@sdf.org wrote: > > I've stayed at this same motel location every year for the last several > > years and it has always worked until this year. The desk clerk claimed > > there have been no changes to their system, but indicated that some > > clients using laptops "just can't connect" (and implied that smartphone > > users do not have any problem)." > > This might be a case of a network using 40MHz wide channel. I have > personally experienced the same. it's faster for 802.11n, but it drops > legacy support for 802.11b/g, which uses 20MHz wide channels.
I think this is unlikely since the Mac PowerBook G4 w/MacOS X 10.4.11 worked fine and its factory-original "airport" card is 802.11b only. If I'd had a way to boot NetBSD/macppc on it I could have tested that combination as well. Also, the other devices (802.11a/b/g) were able to associate with the access point (status went from "no network" to "active"). If there was no support for b/g, I should think that wouldn't be possible. -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]mylinuxisp[flyspeck]com OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645
