Is there a way to force connecting to the 5Ghz wifi band?

I have to disable the 2.4Ghz band on the wifi router for my FreeBSD laptop to connect at 5Ghz. If both bands are enabled, it always connects at the lower freq (and lower throughput). I don't see an obvious parameter to set in wifi_supplicant.conf. I could use a different SSID for each band but wond

Re: per-VAP vs shared ifconfig options

On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 03:08, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to tell which wireless ifconfig option is shared > and which is per VAP? > I mean, 'channel' is shared, 'ssid' is per VAP obviously. > But how about the rest? > Is that explicitly documented somewhere? > Is there something

Problem reports for wirel...@freebsd.org that need special attention

To view an individual PR, use: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=(Bug Id). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users, which need special attention. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and ob

per-VAP vs shared ifconfig options

Is there an easy way to tell which wireless ifconfig option is shared and which is per VAP? I mean, 'channel' is shared, 'ssid' is per VAP obviously. But how about the rest? Is that explicitly documented somewhere? Is there something obvious to search for in the source? -- Andriy Gapon