Re: permanently blacklisting an AP; rate setting on bcm43xx

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Larry Finger wrote:
> John Steele Scott wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to permanently blacklist an access point by its MAC
>> address? I've tried removing the address in gconf-editor, but this didn't
>> do what I wanted.
>>
>> The situation is that I have two APs in a WDS setup. One of the APs (a
>> Billion 7402VGP) does not work properly with the bcm43xx in my iBook. The
>> other AP (a Belkin) works fine. So I want NetworkManager to only associate
>> with the Belkin, and never with the Billion.
>>
>> Another question. On the same iBook, when NetworkManager associates with
>> an AP, the bit rate is 11Mbits. If I want it faster (e.g. 54Mbits), I have
>> to set it manually with iwconfig. Is this a known
>> bug? Is there a simple way to specific a command to run every time NM
>> associates, so I could have this happen automatically?
>>
>> I am using NM 0.6.4 from Ubuntu Feisty.
> 
> It is a feature, not a bug. Until very recently, none of the bcm43xx drivers could go very fast and 
> 11 Mbs was set to enable the driver to authenticate with some reliability.
> 
> What kernel version is in Feisty? 

2.6.20

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