2012-12-19 16:44:57

by Danilo

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Subject: Incoerency in iw (or mac80211 or drivers) behavior

Hello,
I figured out that the command:

iw dev wlan0 set bitrates legacy-5 24

has different behaviors in different devices.

With iwl3945 wireless cards, it fixes the rate at 24Mbps ALSO for multicast
frames while in iwl4965 cards, it doesn't.


In both cases I tried with ubuntu linux 12.04 and kernel-3.2.0-32-generic using
iwl4965/iwl_legacy driver for 4965 and iwl3945/iwl_legacy driver for 3945.


I've also tried with compat-wireless-3.6, same result.

What's the expected behavior?

Thanks in advance,
D. Tardioli