> > 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 -- 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