802.11b poor transfer rates

[Vaclav Rehak]

> 
> Now, even with ifconfig saying that, I can't get more than 70KB/sec over the link no matter what I 
> try, which is about what you'd expect for a "1mbit" 802.11b connection. Before I upgraded this box, 
> it was running 4.10-stable and getting throughput of more than 350KB/sec over the same link.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas for a fix for this?

It is a bug in 5.x and -current. Roman Divacky <xdivac02 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
worked on it with some promising results (250-270 KB/s)
but due to lack of time and some strange panics he didn't bring the patch
to production state.

Vaclav