diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
index f15832245e0e..6d4df3e79be4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
@@ -2497,6 +2497,18 @@ int rt2800_probe_hw_mode(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev)
 				rt2x00_eeprom_addr(rt2x00dev,
 						   EEPROM_MAC_ADDR_0));
 
+	/*
+	 * As rt2800 has a global fallback table we cannot specify
+	 * more then one tx rate per frame but since the hw will
+	 * try several rates (based on the fallback table) we should
+	 * still initialize max_rates to the maximum number of rates
+	 * we are going to try. Otherwise mac80211 will truncate our
+	 * reported tx rates and the rc algortihm will end up with
+	 * incorrect data.
+	 */
+	rt2x00dev->hw->max_rates = 7;
+	rt2x00dev->hw->max_rate_tries = 1;
+
 	rt2x00_eeprom_read(rt2x00dev, EEPROM_ANTENNA, &eeprom);
 
 	/*