On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 17:34 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote: > > No, you don't understand. It will break _talking to_ 11b only stations > > when the local station is 11g capable. > > i understood that this is what you mean. note that i said *without* the other > patch! the first patch breaks talking to 11b only stations, true. the second > doesn't because: > > as it is now ieee80211_mandatory_rates(local, sband->band) returns 1 (1Mbps) > in a 2GHz channel. which is o.k. for B only stations. Oh ok, right. > before we unconditionally used 3 (1Mbps, 2 Mbps) as basic rates. this clearly > is wrong in the 5GHz band. No, it's fine. Look again at how this works. > > > anyhow, i wouldn't mind adding something to configure this from > > > userspace. can you point me to the right direction? i mean i can add > > > something to IBSS setup but as i said i can't believe this is only > > > relevant to IBSS mode. > > > > What other modes do you think it is relevant to? > > i'm not so familiar with the way STA and AP operate, but i thought that also > there the distiction between B, B/G and pure-G could make sense. Not unless you want your 11g+ STA to operate in 11b-only mode. johannes -- 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
