Bug 559 – New Feature: Rate adjustment

Bug 559 - New Feature: Rate adjustment

Summary:

New Feature: Rate adjustment

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 424

Product:	IPW2200
Component:	Rate scaling
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	All All

Importance:	P2 enhancement
Assigned To:	James Ketrenos
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Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2005-02-02 03:53 by Florian Hackenberger
Modified:	2005-02-03 07:43 (History)

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patch which adds the rate change feature to the driver (7.96 KB, patch) 2005-02-02 03:54, Florian Hackenberger	Details \| Diff
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Description From Florian Hackenberger 2005-02-02 03:53:48

After some time of source code reading and because of my urgent need for this  
feature I have implemented the necessary Wireless Extension functions to  
support the iwconfig range command.  
 
The driver now lets you set the preferred bit rate (even when already  
associated) and also supports the additional auto option (adding auto after a  
rate e.g. "iwconfig eth1 5M auto", selects all rates lower and equal 5M). I  
have tested the new feature with a 11MBit AP at my university and it works  
(it definitely works, because I have about 90% packet loss at 11M and about  
15% at 2M). But I have not tested it on 802.11g and 802.11a AP. If you have  
one of these devices, please test the patch and let me know if it works! 
 
As far as I know the firmware currently always selects the highest possible  
frequency, which is suboptimal. If I have time I will look at that issue too.

------- Comment #1 From Florian Hackenberger 2005-02-02 03:54:55 -------

Created an attachment (id=254) [details]
patch which adds the rate change feature to the driver

This patch applies to 1.0.0

------- Comment #2 From Salwan Searty 2005-02-03 07:43:15 -------


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 424 ***