Subject: Re: Atheros AR9462 - 5Ghz not working
To: mgreger@cinci.rr.com, Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@gmail.com>
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Cc: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@gmail.com>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        sedat.dilek@gmail.com,
        =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=c5=82_Kazior?= <kazikcz@gmail.com>,
        Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
From: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:22:58 +0200
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+ Martin

On 6/18/2018 3:53 PM, mgreger@cinci.rr.com wrote:
>
> ---- Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Your log only show attemps on ch 2447, Can you try connecting to 5GHz
>> AP? Connect to Hidden Wireless Network option at the bottom of the
>> nm-applet? Running airodump in monitor mode to see if it captures
>> anything? Maybe your laptop's antennas were designed for 2.4G card
>> only but this just dumb guessing...
>>
>
> It won't connect to any 5GHz AP.
> I don't run network manager or Gnome, in fact X11 is not installed on this machine at all.
> I don't think there is such a thing as 2.4GHz vs 5GHz antennas.

Actually there is. At least there are 2.4G specific antennas and 
dual-band antennas.

In 4.11 there have been a couple eeprom related changes dealing with 
endianness of fields in eeprom. Could be those cause a regression for 
you. I don't have the exact sha id of those commits, but I added the 
author to this thread.

Regards,
Arend