On 01/20/2014 10:28 AM, 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? > > 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. > That would be biosdevname. It has been around for some time now. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Desktop_Users.html#sect-RelNotes-Networking http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Desktop.html#idm28009696 More info: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/biosdevname http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/ http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/consistent_network_device_naming_in_linux.pdf - rejy (rmc) -- 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
