hostapd bit rate setting, Rate not more than 18Mb by a signal of -42dbm ...

[Beat Meier]

Jouni Malinen wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:53:25AM -0300, Beat Meier wrote:
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>>How can I set bitrate at startup of hostapd?
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>>If I set after running hostap with
>>  iwconfig ath0 bit 6M
>>iwlist ath0 bit tells me
>>  Current Bit Rate=6 Mb/s
>>iwconfig ath0 tells me
>>  Bit Rate=6 Mb/s
>>but client wpa_supplicant has rate 48Mb
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>This has nothing to do with hostapd and a better target for this
>question would be madwifi-users mailing list.
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Jouni

Yes and no
The second one is a madwifi problem but the first one not.

If I set the bit rate with
  iwconfig ath0 bit XXX
the bitrate is set.
When hostapd or wpa_supplicant starts it set the bitrate back to auto.
Why this?

Why hostapd doesn't leave this as it is??
And last but least. If I set the bitrate in 802.11g mode
fix the client is connected but network not operational (ping fails etc.)

Output of wpa_client

Oct 18 18:21:09.671509: State: ASSOCIATED -> COMPLETED
Oct 18 18:21:09.671727: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 
00:0b:6b:36:eb:bb completed (auth)
Oct 18 18:21:09.672005: RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added

wpa_client and hostapd are version 0.4.3 madwifi is madwifi-bsd-20050702

BTW: If hostap is used without authentication the network interface is 
brought down and no more brought up.
You have to do an explicit ifconfig ath0 up that it works.


Beat