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From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net>
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Subject: Re: Oops! (was: Support for Intel 5100 WiFi ?)
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On Sunday 07 October 2012 07:08:58 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> Regarding my immediately prior mesage... NEVERMIND!
> 
> I did:
> 
>     kldload if_iwn
> 
> (based on a suggestion I found on the next) and now, of course, the thing
> is properly showing up as iwn0.
> 
> I do still have a couple of questions though...
> 
> After the kldload, I got message showing me the various data rates
> available for 801.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g... up to 54Mbps on that
> last one, of course.
> 
> However as I understand it, the Intel 5100 chip is also capable of
> 802.11n, and furthermore and additionally, it is allegedly dual-band,
> having the capability to operate in either the 2.4GHz range or in the
> 5Ghz range.
> 
> So I'd just like to know if the driver for this chip, either in 8.2-RELEASE
> or in anything later, supports either 802.11n and/or the 5GHz band.
> 
> Of course, I'd also like to know if there is support for 40MHz channels,
> and how one would go about making use of any or all of these enhanced
> features, if in fact they are supported by the (recent or current)
> driver.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any info.

iwn(4) does support 11n, 5GHz and 40MHz channels. Though, it might
be better to switch to 9.x as it has received many many enhancements.

Using those features is rather easy, it does so by default ;)

-- 
Bernhard