On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 22:58 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering how wireless signal strength (as displayed by the > network-manager applet) is calculated. There is a percentage reported: > what does this percent mean and where does NetworkManager get its > values from? Not sure if this is still relevant, but it was part of the early development of NetworkManager, developed right down the hall from me. http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/nm-ipw2200.shtml > > While I am here, I also wanted to know the answer to the question as > to how the interfaces are decided in latter-day Fedoras: to elucidate, > it used to be that eth0 and wlan0 and ppp0 were the interfaces. Now it > seems to depend (and vary from one machine to the other). How do these > get decided nowadays? Is there a generic way to get to the correct > interface to use in programming? I am thinking of conky which requires > the interface (from ifconfig, say) to set up signal strength, etc. > > Many thanks for any enlightenment and best wishes, > Ranjan > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
