[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#618540: iw: Bit rate not displayed for n-mode networks

[Stefan Luetje]

Package: iw
Version: 0.9.19-1
Severity: minor

When connected to an n-mode network, the bit rate is not displayed by iw.

# iw dev wlan0 link
Connected to bc:05:42:50:bc:a8 (on wlan0)
	SSID: NETGEAR
	freq: 2412
	RX: 23614148 bytes (56215 packets)
	TX: 3678522 bytes (18206 packets)
	signal: -41 dBm
	tx bitrate:  MCS 45 40Mhz short GI

# iw dev wlan0 station dump
Station bc:05:42:50:bc:a8 (on wlan0)
	inactive time:	7040 ms
	rx bytes:	26045295
	rx packets:	66599
	tx bytes:	4183345
	tx packets:	19688
	signal:  	-41 dBm
	tx bitrate:	 MCS 45 40Mhz short GI

# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"NETGEAR"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: BC:05:42:50:BC:A8   
          Bit Rate=0 kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=67/70  Signal level=-43 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

# lspci -vnn
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0023] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:3071]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16
	Memory at febf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [40] #80 [0000]
	Kernel driver in use: ath9k



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iw depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libnl1                        1.1-6      library for dealing with netlink s

iw recommends no packages.

iw suggests no packages.

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