Dan Williams wrote: > > Actually, now that I think about it, why are _any_ applets > screen-scraping /proc/net/wireless anymore? If they profess to be a > wireless applet, yet screenscrape /proc/net/wireless, that's suspect > right there. The ioctls for status are quite well-defined and haven't > changed in a very long time (ie, SIOCGIWRANGE). > > On the flip side, /proc/net/wireless has been supported since the dawn > of time (ok, not really) and is the textual interface for reporting > wireless statistic, but maybe that shouldn't be the case anymore. >
I finally found the source for the applet, and it is using iwlib to get the statistics. If the kernel's version of WE is really old, it will use /proc/net/wireless. For newer kernels, it is using the appropriate ioctl. When I get time, I will fix the error and submit a patch to KDE. As an interim workaround, I downloaded and built kwlaninfo, a different KDE kicker applet. I don't like it very much but it does show the needed info. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://bat.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
