On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 10:51 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > The gdesklet is on crack actually, and those values don't really come > from anywhere and break with different cards. NM is using the values > _directly_ from the driver, the same values you see in 'iwconfig'. If > the driver's idea of quality and max quality is off, then the solution > is to fix the driver, not work around it with code like gdesklet does > that doesn't make any sense for all cards... > true enough. i guess it works for me right now... also, i deduce everything from what i have and see, which is only the atheros abg card. it seems to me that when i compare iwconfig and /proc/net/wireless the link quality #'s are the same... again, i don't know the code or where it's coming from, it's just an observation. i do see and acknowledge the need to have a universal solution, and i trust your assessment of the situation: the drivers suck (and there are too many of them ;-). and i appreciate all the effort you and the other NM developers put in to find a linux wireless networking solution that works (and does not suck).
apart from that: could it be that NM sometimes takes the signal strength form the wrong AP (in the situation i described, with AP's with the same essid)? and what about the change in signal strengths? Sven _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
