Comment 106 for bug 124159

waddayaknow, previous comment was not entirely correct. It should have read:

sudo su
echo -e '#!/bin/sh\niwconfig eth1 rate 5.5M auto' > /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/fixed-rate
echo -e '#!/bin/sh\niwconfig eth1 rate 5.5M auto' > /etc/network/if-up.d/fixed-rate
chmod a+x /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/fixed-rate /etc/network/if-up.d/fixed-rate
exit

The files must be executable. Sorry for the noise.

Peter