Bug 215223
| Summary: | iwconfig essid for a bcm43xx device resets rate | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ville Skyttä <scop> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | John W. Linville <linville> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 6 | CC: | davej, wtogami | ||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-11-29 19:32:33 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Created attachment 140994 [details]
ifcfg-wlan0
This is the results of a hack introduced to compensate for our inability to handle backing-down to lower rates. When the new wireless infrastructure is merged upstream, things will be better. For now, we have to live with this hack. |
kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.x86_64 initscripts-8.45.5-1.x86_64 wireless-tools-28-1.fc6.x86_64 No idea if this is a bcm43xx, initscripts or iwconfig issue, but the 'iwconfig $DEVICE essid "$ESSID"' line at end of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless always resets the rate of my BCM4306 PCI card (wlan0, ESSID set to a specific value) to 11M, no matter what RATE is set to in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wlan0. There are significant differences between 11M and 18M (approximately 1.9MB/s and 2.8MB/s downstream) on my system, and 48M produces even a bit better average performance (2.9MB/s downstream), so I'd like the device to use one of the better rates. For now, I'm working around this by explicitly resetting the rate to the configured value with this scriptlet in /sbin/ifup-local, and things work as expected: --- #!/bin/sh if [ "$1" = "wlan0" ] ; then . /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/"ifcfg-$1" if [ -n "$RATE" ] ; then iwconfig "$1" rate $RATE fi fi --- ifcfg-wlan0 attached. NetworkManager is not in use. WEP is.