On Monday 17 December 2007 08:17:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 1:52 AM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One major difference between bcm43xx-SoftMAC and b43-mac80211 is that the > > former always used a fixed > > rate; whereas mac80211 tries to adjust the bit rate according to the > > transmission conditions. > > Perhaps it isn't working quite right in your case because of some > > peculiarity of your AP. IIRC, you > > have an 802.11b AP. If so, you will get the same bit speed behavior for > > mac80211 as for bcdm43xx by > > issuing a 'sudo iwconfig eth1 rate 11M' command. > > I don't know what happened before, but after a reboot, I can't repeat > the 200 kB/s speed. It's back down to 40 kB/s, just like originally. I > didn't move the laptop, or the ap, the only thing I can think of that > might have changed is the noise level. FWIW, link quality is > consistently the same or better with b43. > > Anyway, I'd noticed before that the bit rate starts at 1 Mb/s and > quickly scales to 11 Mb/s, but I tried setting it manually anyway and > didn't see any change. In fact, I set the rate to 5.5 Mb/s as well as > 1 Mb/s and the download speed was the same with all three (around > 30-40 kB/s).
Are you working with wireless-2.6's #everything branch? -- Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
