From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:34:34 +0200 Message-ID: <200609161734.35091.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <450B3C51.208@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Simon Barber , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:47308 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932393AbWIPPgL (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:36:11 -0400 To: mabbas In-Reply-To: <450B3C51.208@linux.intel.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Saturday 16 September 2006 01:50, mabbas wrote: > I see your point here, although some one will file some bugs against the > driver about showing G while associating with B-mode AP. By the way how > can you figure if the AP is B/G other than the rates? I don't think this will happen. This never happened with bcm43xx, for example. The PHY description of the card is something _completely_ different than the AP's PHY. People know that G is backwards compatible to B. And people who don't even know that, don't care anyway. ;) -- Greetings Michael.