Subject: Re: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP

From: mabbas <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:19:25 -0700

Simon Barber wrote:
> Why is it necessary to set phymode to B? - a G client can connect
> perfectly well to a B AP.
>   
We need this information for rate scaling and we need to send the NIC 
different command depends on the AP connection type.
Mohamed
> Simon 
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> When I connect to b-mode only AP and then run iwconf it shows it as a
> G-mode AP. I guess when we set frequency it look through all the modes
> and set the mode to the first channel it founds. since B and G share the
> same frequencies it will set phymode to G. How can we force it to set
> phymode to the AP we are associating with.
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