Bug 446933 - NM assigns max wireless speed to ralink card of 1MB/s
Summary: NM assigns max wireless speed to ralink card of 1MB/s
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 443203
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-16 17:23 UTC by Richard Jolly
Modified: 2008-05-20 19:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-05-20 19:15:14 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Screenshot of NM Connection Info + lsmod & lspci outputs (562.26 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2008-05-16 17:23 UTC, Richard Jolly
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Description Richard Jolly 2008-05-16 17:23:04 UTC
Description of problem:NM appears to fix WPA PSK connection speed to 1MB/s on a
RALink Wireless card (03:03.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g
Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01). Changes to the connection detail appears to be make
no change to the speed.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NM Applet 0.7.0

How reproducible:
Ever boot up occurs

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log into F9
2.WPA Connection initiated
3.Connection details report 1 MB/s and it does seem to run at this slow speed on
browsing
  
Actual results:
1 MB/s

Expected results:

Auto - 54 MB/s - router approx 6 feet away!
Additional info:

screenshot of NM Connection Information - see attached
output of uname - 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686
lsmod - see attachment
lspci - see attachment

Comment 1 Richard Jolly 2008-05-16 17:23:04 UTC
Created attachment 305714 [details]
Screenshot of NM Connection Info + lsmod & lspci outputs

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2008-05-16 19:18:19 UTC
Likely an issue with the kernel driver rate adaptation, since right now NM
doesn't do anything with the data rate.

Comment 3 John W. Linville 2008-05-20 19:15:14 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 443203 ***


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