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From: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwl8k: remove nonstandard rate 72 Mbps
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 05:11:58AM -0700, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> This rate causes an overflow in the extended rates IE's data rate field,
> with the overflowing bit setting the Basic Rate Set membership. This
> results in a bogus 8 Mpbs basic rate, making clients checking them refuse
> association.
> 
> Since the rate is likely unused anyway (HT will yield better rates between
> supporting chips), we can just remove it.
> 
> This fixes association from wpa_supplicant and Android 4.x and newer.

Hi Jonas,

If you are using hostapd, have you tried using 'supported_rates' and/or
'basic_rates' being set to correct rates in the hostapd.conf.

Thanks
Yogesh