Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to force bcm43xx to use specific bit rate (eg. 11 M)?
>
> On my box it tends to automatically switch to 24 M, even if I do
>
> # iwconfig eth1 rate 11M fixed
If you use git, reverting commit bb52a653eaef4aee877b2fa36de8699926f788bd will
make your interface
always use 11 Mbs. In case you don't use git, this patch was the following:
diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
index 256207b..770a068 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c
@@ -265,17 +265,10 @@ void ieee80211softmac_init_bss(struct
ieee80211softmac_device *mac)
/* Change the default txrate to the highest possible value.
* The txrate machine will lower it, if it is too high.
*/
- /* FIXME: We don't correctly handle backing down to lower
- rates, so 801.11g devices start off at 11M for now. People
- 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
txrates->user_rate = IEEE80211_CCK_RATE_11MB;
- } else if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_OFDM_MODULATION) {
- txrates->user_rate = IEEE80211_OFDM_RATE_54MB;
- } else
- assert(0);
txrates->default_rate = IEEE80211_CCK_RATE_1MB;
change |= IEEE80211SOFTMAC_TXRATECHG_DEFAULT;
diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
index fa2f7da..89c83fa 100644
--- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
@@ -177,15 +177,10 @@ ieee80211softmac_wx_set_rate(struct net_device *net_dev,
int err = -EINVAL;
if (in_rate == -1) {
- /* FIXME: We don't correctly handle backing down to lower
- rates, so 801.11g devices start off at 11M for now. People
- 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)
- in_rate = 11000000;
+ if (ieee->modulation & IEEE80211_OFDM_MODULATION)
+ in_rate = 24000000;
else
- in_rate = 54000000;
+ in_rate = 11000000;
}
switch (in_rate) {
Larry
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