From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([87.55.233.238]:3488 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756874AbXJRTni (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:43:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:43:33 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Rate problems with iwl3945 Message-ID: <20071018194332.GM10674@kernel.dk> (sfid-20071018_204342_688597_8264A338) References: <20071018191102.GI10674@kernel.dk> <1192735782.15285.48.camel@johannes.berg> <20071018193624.GK10674@kernel.dk> <20071018194122.GL10674@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20071018194122.GL10674@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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