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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:06:30 +0100
From: Bastian Bittorf <bittorf@bluebottle.com>
Subject: Re: WRT54g / b43 / mac802.11 BREAKTHROUGH
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> > 1) why does a band change (can be seen through minstrel) is a
> problem?
> 
> Because IIRC b43 doesn't support anything other than 2.4GHz at
> all.

8-) sorry, i used the wrong term "band":
(fast) changing between b and g rates are the problem.

you can easily reproduce, when you force this by:

iw dev $WIFIDEV set bitrates legacy-2.4 11 12

("use only b-rate 11 and g-rate 12")
So minstrel will happily change/try both, wifi will stop.
The same with:

iw dev $WIFIDEV set bitrates legacy-2.4 5.5 6

bye, Bastian