On 2013/02/14 17:47, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:53:54AM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > 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. > > all diffs welcome. > jmc >
Related, if someone has time: ifmedia(4) has a table of channel/frequency (and regulatory information) which only covers 1-14, extending this to cover the 5GHz channels would be handy.
