Re: Rate problems with iwl3945

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > Copying some files I noticed it was slow, though.
> > > 
> > > Can you check that the right mode is selected? There's a bugfix pending
> > > for mac80211 that makes it select 802.11b mode rather than 802.11g. I
> > > don't remember whether I've asked this already so if I did please accept
> > > my apology. FWIW, the fix is by me (in all fairness, the regression was
> > > also introduced by me) titled "[PATCH v2] mac80211: fix set_channel
> > > regression"
> > 
> > Indeed, it's running 802.11b. Even so, why is it switching down to 5.5M?
> > Link quality is around 96/100, I'm sitting about a meter away from the
> > AP right now.
> > 
> > So where do I find this fix?
> 
> Ah found it, in the wireless git repo. Testing...

That did the trick! It's now running 802.11g, rate 54 Mb/s. And
performance is back where it should be, similar to ipw3945.

Thanks a lot for the hint!

-- 
Jens Axboe