On 6/8/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 00:11 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 23:10 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:25 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: > > > > Do the above changes seem like they resolved these issues or maybe not > > > > affect it at all? I can dig out my atheros card (it's in the attic!) > > > > and find out if nobody knows but I figured it would save me the hassle > > > > of climbing up there if someone already has checked. > > > > > > I use an Atheros-based PCI card, so I'll try updating the drivers, see > > > if the signal strength is still an issue. As of whatever version I'm > > > running right now (SVN from about a month or two ago), NM reports about > > > 15% while the Gnome network applet shows about 60%. What would you > > > expect me to see on new drivers? > > > > Ok, running the latest madwifi driver from SVN now. Doesn't seem any > > different from previous versions - I'm seeing roughly the same signals > > in NM as before. Is the following output from iwlist of any interest to > > you? > > > > 00:17:9A:12:31:72 : Quality=49/70 Signal level=-46 dBm Noise > > level=-95 dBm > > ^^^^ This looks wrong > > Quality is supposed to be a linear value between 0 and max_qual.qual > inclusive. 49/70 = 70%; and with a signal of -46dBm and a noise of -95 > dBm, that seems bogus. It should be higher than that. -46 dBm is > _really good_. > > > 00:14:7C:AD:39:92 : Quality=120/70 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise > > level=-95 dBm > > ^^^^ This is wrong > > A value of 120 is clearly outside the bounds of 0, 70. > > madwifi is free to use dBm or RSSI in the 'level' and 'noise' fields, > which it apparently does just fine (except for the -256 dBm signal level > in the above result). But if the driver specifies quality, NM will use > that first, which it should do. > > Dan >
Thanks Dan! That is too bad... Though in retrospect I really want to avoid any non-free components (Like the madwifi HAL since dadwifi looks to be awhile off) so I should stick with the IPW3945 with the new iwlwifi driver instead. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
