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Bug ID 6555235
Synopsis incorrect MODE displayed when running dladm show-wifi for wpi and ath driver
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory driver:wifi
Keywords solx86-wifi-dladm-wpi
Responsible Engineer Brian Xu
Reported Against snv_64
Duplicate Of
Introduced In
Commit to Fix snv_68
Fixed In snv_68
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_68)
Related Bugs 6555237
Submit Date 9-May-2007
Last Update Date 3-July-2007
Description 
The ap only support mode b, but the show-wifi displays mode g.
Another issue is that the SPEED shows only 1Mb, while the signal is excellent.

root@unknown>dladm scan-wifi wpi0
LINK       ESSID               BSSID/IBSSID      SEC    STRENGTH   MODE   SPEED
wpi0       linksys             0:f:66:4a:99:c3   wep    excellent  b      11Mb
root@unknown>dladm show-wifi wpi0
LINK       STATUS            ESSID               SEC    STRENGTH   MODE   SPEED
wpi0       connected         linksys             wep    excellent  g      1Mb

Hardware:
Dell d620 with 3945
solaris Nevada build 64
Work Around 
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Comments 
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