Return-path: Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:47705 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757203AbXD0U3K (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:29:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:29:32 +0200 From: Jiri Benc To: Larry Finger Cc: wireless Subject: Re: Wireless rates with mac80211 Message-ID: <20070427222932.548519eb@griffin.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <46325B51.7090506@lwfinger.net> References: <462F9617.8010207@lwfinger.net> <20070427221153.7ecc04de@griffin.suse.cz> <46325B51.7090506@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs