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Re: Wireless rates with mac80211

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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

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Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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