From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Wireless rates with mac80211
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:29:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070427222932.548519eb@griffin.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46325B51.7090506@lwfinger.net>
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:21:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I'm using txrate in the sta_info struct, which is an index into the rates
> array. That turned out to be very useful as I discovered that rc80211_simple was setting the initial
> rate to 54 Mbs. I have some doubt if that rate is best under any circumstance, but it certainly is
> not for bcm43xx as the current issues with TX power do not allow transmission at that rate. By
> setting the initial rate to 1 Mbs, I was able to connect for the first time with my BCM4311.
Rate control modules can be switched on-the-fly with mac80211. You can
write your own rc module that uses 1 mbps all times :-) Actually, I
wrote that module but haven't kept it up to date so it doesn't even
compile now...
Jiri
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Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-27 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-25 17:55 Wireless rates with mac80211 Larry Finger
2007-04-25 20:37 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-26 4:16 ` Larry Finger
2007-04-26 4:22 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-26 5:15 ` Larry Finger
2007-04-27 3:33 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-27 20:11 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-27 20:21 ` Larry Finger
2007-04-27 20:29 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2007-04-27 20:38 ` Larry Finger
2007-04-27 20:51 ` Johannes Berg
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