enum_ieee80211_band(9)

enum_ieee80211_band9

Supported frequency bands

Usage

enum ieee80211_band {
  IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ,
  IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ,
  IEEE80211_BAND_60GHZ,
  IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS
};  

Constants

IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ

2.4GHz ISM band

IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ

around 5GHz band (4.9-5.7)

IEEE80211_BAND_60GHZ

around 60 GHz band (58.32 - 64.80 GHz)

IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS

number of defined bands

Device registration

The bands are assigned this way because the supported bitrates differ in these bands.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 7
  2. 8

Author

Johannes Berg <[email protected]>

Author.

From linux-manual-3.16 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.