Apologies for the lack of detail. I encountered the exact symptoms of the original report, except:
* I am running 10.10 * I'm using an Intel wireless card (4965) * I resolved the problem by adding the following line to /etc/rc.local: iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M auto Will test the liveCD for Natty when I can. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384920 Title: iwconfig bitrate is not set properly -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs