Seconded (as if I needed to with Theo responding :P).... I have an old Atheros based cardbus adaptor that will supposedly do b+g but I know for a fact not a, check the specs of the device please and do as Theo asks... dmesg is useful.
Having said that... Theo it may interest you that the man page says that 3 devices are supported and it states for each that 802.11a is supported.. (AR5210, AR5211 and AR5212).. this may just mean that the driver has moved beyond the man page but I believe OpenBSD man pages are the best and most accurate so maybe this needs some updates. -Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Theo de Raadt Sent: 03 March 2006 20:48 To: Fridtjof Busse Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: ath and 802.11a > Is anybody using 802.11a with ath? > The manpage lists a/b/g as working, although g definitly doesn't work > for me, only b does. Now I'm curious if anything besides b actually > works before I buy an antenna for a. > Or is it just my cards? If not, why isn't there a note about this in > the manpage? There are many different models of the "ath" hardware. Not everything works perfectly -- but much of it does work. I think it is a bad thing to make simplified statements like you did above. Without specific model information *taken right out of dmesg*, noone will be able to help you. And your mail joins the archive, feeding future pessimism, which it should not really do.
