On Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:31, Larry Finger wrote:
> There is a bug in SoftMAC that initializes data rates for all devices to 11
> Mbs. Now that many of
> the devices will actually run at higher rates, this patch fixes that bug.
>
> As not all chips will run at speeds above 11 Mbs, I will not be sending this
> patch upstream to
> Linville, but I wanted it available for the users. As you see, I'm setting a
> rate of 24 Mbs. If your
> card works at 36, please change that line.
Hm, may I suggest the appended patch instead? ;-)
Rafael
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.20/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20.orig/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
+++ linux-2.6.20/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
@@ -270,12 +270,13 @@ void ieee80211softmac_init_bss(struct ie
can manually change it if they really need to, but 11M is
more reliable. Note similar logic in
ieee80211softmac_wx_set_rate() */
- if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_CCK_MODULATION) {
+ if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_OFDM_MODULATION) {
+ txrates->user_rate = IEEE80211_OFDM_RATE_24MB;
+ } else if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_CCK_MODULATION) {
txrates->user_rate = IEEE80211_CCK_RATE_11MB;
- } else if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_OFDM_MODULATION) {
- txrates->user_rate = IEEE80211_OFDM_RATE_54MB;
- } else
+ } else {
assert(0);
+ }
txrates->default_rate = IEEE80211_CCK_RATE_1MB;
change |= IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_DEFAULT;
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