Fedora wifi: Specifying 2.4 or 5.8 GHz

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:06:38AM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 12:00 +1000, Dan Irwin wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have a Cisco AIR-1252 access point with both 2.4 and 5.8 GHz radios.
> > I have configured both radios to broadcast the same ssid.
> > 
> > How can I tell fedora to use only 5.8GHz ? So far it only connects to
> > the 2.4GHz radio.
> > 
> > What are the options here, apart from running different ssids for 2.4
> > and 5.8GHz?
> 
> man iwconfig
> (or "man iw" if you have it)

True enough, but I doubt if that will help much if you are using
NetworkManager.

I'm sorry, but I don't think there is a very "user friendly" way to
do what you want other than using different SSIDs.  OTOH, a clever
SSID for the 5GHz band is a good piece of social engineering to get
those with appropriate hardware to use the alternate band even if
they don't understand enough to know why their "giga" hurts...

John
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