Prefer 802.11a over 802.11g

Hello,
Is there a way in an autonomous AP to set 802.11a/5ghz as the prefered connection frequency if the client is 802.11a capable? We have a number of notebooks that have draft N cards and we have AP's with A and G radios and I wanted to force the A capable clients to connect via A instead of G.
Thanks,
Dan.

Unrelated to the band-select CLI command, I am using a GPO with 2 x SSIDs - SSID2.4 & SSID5. The SSID5 has higher priority and from my limited testing, N clients seem to connect to to the SSID5 and obviously G clients only see SSID2.4 and connect to that. It seems to be working so far.
Obviously you need to be running the WZC supplicant for this to work.
Modifying the driver band-select option isn't a great option as not all clients support it and it is not scalable in any enterprise deployment. Scripting those drivers modifications would probably be a nightmare. I guess it may work in a small environment.
We'll see how well the band-select CLI option works.

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