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rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix 5G detection problem

The changes associated with moving this driver from staging to the regular
tree missed one section setting the allowable rates for the 5GHz band.

This patch is needed to fix the regression reported in Bug #88811
(https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88811).

Reported-by: Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>
Tested-by: Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger 10 years ago
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1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 3 2
      drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c

+ 3 - 2
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c

@@ -3672,8 +3672,9 @@ static void rtl8821ae_update_hal_rate_mask(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 		mac->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
 		macid = sta->aid + 1;
 	if (wirelessmode == WIRELESS_MODE_N_5G ||
-	    wirelessmode == WIRELESS_MODE_AC_5G)
-		ratr_bitmap = sta->supp_rates[NL80211_BAND_5GHZ];
+	    wirelessmode == WIRELESS_MODE_AC_5G ||
+	    wirelessmode == WIRELESS_MODE_A)
+		ratr_bitmap = sta->supp_rates[NL80211_BAND_5GHZ] << 4;
 	else
 		ratr_bitmap = sta->supp_rates[NL80211_BAND_2GHZ];