P.G. Richardson wrote: > Hi guys, > > More experimentation with my rtl8187. With some playing around with the > access point location, I think I may have stumbled on a good position. > > Anyway ... > > I noticed that the rate reported by iwconfig only ever gets to 11Mb/s > despite the fact that I now have a signal level of 90/100 - 100/100. I > found that I can do > > iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M > > but it seems that although the card is still associated networking doesnt > work (pings fail). If I change it back to auto > > iwconfig wlan0 rate auto > > then iwconfig reports 11Mb/s again and pinging resumes fine. > > Is there any chance that the driver is incorrectly reporting its mode or > something in that the rates it displays bear the hallmarks of a b card > rather than g? > > Using the compat-wireless snapshot from 9/2/2009 > Mandriva 2.6.27.10-desktop586-1mnb What rate-adjustment method are you using? The output of dmesg will tell. If you are using minstrel, then you should post the contents from the following commands: STATS=$(find /sys -name rc_stats) echo $STATS sudo cat $STATS Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
