On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:35 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > 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? > > No, it always uses the signal strength as reported by the card using > SIOCGIWSTATS, namely it uses the exact same values you see in the "Link > Quality x/y" section of 'iwconfig', and simply does "% = x / y * 100". > Note that /proc/net/wireless doesn't report any maximum quality, but > iwconfig does.
i guess you know best, but: how come iwconfig says "Link Quality=30/94" and changing according to distance etc from AP, but NM applet says "Wireless network connection (75%)" when 30/94*100 is 32??? Sven _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
