Re: Ralink 2500 connects at 1M

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:15:29AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> My Lenny laptop with a Ralink 2500 wireless card always connects at a
> speed of 1M, which is unbearably slow.  I can issue this command which
> fixes it, but I have to do it every time:
> 
> iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M
> 
> Anybody know a better way?
> 
I solved it with this script:

/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/20speedup

#!/bin/sh

case "$2" in
        up)
               iwconfig $1 rate 54M
        ;;
        down)
               ## placeholder 
        ;;
esac

-Rob