On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org>wrote:
> Amit Kulkarni <amitkulz <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > I was reading the manpages of athn/iwn for purchasing a suitable > wireless card > and found repeated > > occurences of 2GHz, when in fact it should be 2.4GHz. That is the > standard > frequency when purchasing a > > wireless a/b/g/n card. The code is filled with 2GHz references but just > changed to man pages in section 4. > > I don't think there is anything 'wrong' in saying "operates in the 2GHz > spectrum". Saying 2.4GHz in documentation seems like it might be a > good idea as it's more common usage, but it seems wrong to say "2.4GHz > spectrum", it seems like "2.4GHz band" would make more sense if doing > this. (But then mixing 'band' and 'spectrum' would also be weird so the > references to 5GHz would need changing to 'bands' (not 'band' there as > there are 3 non-continuous ranges). Is it worth it? I don't know. > > > you guys beat me with a stick if i push more than once, so i will refrain from commenting on it. a section of athn.4 manpage is fluff, information is repeated twice. once in words, other times in a table summarizing the list of working/supported chips. the same manpage was copied over for iwn, a table of supported chips would be nice in there too. if there's any interest i will sit down and submit a manpage diff.
