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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Rate problems with iwl3945
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:43:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071018194332.GM10674@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071018194122.GL10674@kernel.dk>

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


      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-18 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-18 19:11 Rate problems with iwl3945 Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 19:29 ` Johannes Berg
2007-10-18 19:36   ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 19:41     ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 19:43       ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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