wlan0 media setting resets after ifconfig wlan0 up

[Monthadar Al Jaberi]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Monthadar Al Jaberi
<monthadar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've noticed this before. It seems the rate settings are reset
>> whenever the PHY mode is changed. This occurs at startup and during
>> things like bg/a -> n promotion.
>>
>> It's worth (further) investigation but i personally don't have the time atm. :(
>
> Is there a preffered work around?

I have noticed that if I fix ucastrate/mgmtrate/mcastrate then media
will be fixed too... but what made me worried was that athstats said:

"1M           current transmit rate"

but I fixed rate to 6M



>
>>
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>>
>> On 14 May 2012 09:42, Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am running current @ RSPRO with an XR2 wifi (AR5414). I am trying to
>>> fix the media to one specific setting, but the moment I bring wlan up
>>> it changes back to autoselect any idea why?
>>>
>>> This is how I do it:
>>>
>>> ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 wlanmode hostap
>>> ifconfig wlan0 media OFDM/12Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap channel 7 ssid tnap100
>>> ifconfig wlan0 up
>>>
>>>
>>> before I bring wlan0 up, ifconfig shows:
>>> wlan0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>>        ether 00:15:6d:xx:xx:xx
>>>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/12Mbps mode 11g
>>> <hostap> (autoselect <hostap>)
>>>        status: no carrier
>>>        ssid tnap100 channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g)
>>>        country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 21 scanvalid 60
>>>        protmode CTS wme burst dtimperiod 1 bintval 0
>>>
>>> after wlan0 up:
>>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>>        ether 00:15:6d:xx:xx:xx
>>>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
>>>        status: running
>>>        ssid tnap100 channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g) bssid 00:15:6d:67:21:73
>>>        country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 21 scanvalid 60
>>>        protmode CTS wme burst dtimperiod 1
>>>
>>>
>>> thnx!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Monthadar Al Jaberi
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