Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
So I bought another Lenovo Thinkpad laptop recently. (I like them, they work well with Linux, they're solidly built.)
After having some minor annoyances with the Broadcom wireless in my previous thinkpad, this time I ordered one with an Intel wireless chip that'd be well supported in Linux.
However once the laptop arrived, I discovered that the Intel option doesn't support the 5GHz band, which I really need at home.
The Intel 5300 wireless card in my Lenovo X200 laptop supports the 5GHz band, or at least claims to when I run iwlist wlan0 freq. Do you have up to date wireless firmware loaded? Under Debian it's in the firmware-iwlwifi (non-free) package; it may be included in the kernel package by some distributions. Checking the specs of the card would confirm it, of course. Mine is not a new laptop, so I would expect more recent models to support the 5GHz band too.