On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 17:42 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The newly announced ath9k driver works great on an AR5418 Core 2 Duo Macbook, >> WPA2-TKIP/AES et al all work fine. It would be good to see this driver in >> wireless-testing, it completely replaces madwifi for me. I used linux.git >> (2.6.26) + wireless-testing.git + my-wireless-testing.git with success. >> >> The only thing that I couldn't get working was the signal strength meter in >> knetworkmanager. The AP signal strength shows up in iwlist ath0 scanning, but >> whatever NM uses doesn't seem to work. All is good with madwifi, by >> comparison. >> >> Any ideas? NM issue? > > The signal strength code in NM hasn't changed for quite a long time. > Chances are it's the driver not reporting correctly. What's the > iwconfig output for while you're connected to your AP? > > Link Quality=92/100 Signal level=-36 dBm Noise level=-91 dBm > > That's the line I care about. Its definitely borked, we just have to fix it. Its on our TODO list, unless someone gets to it first. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
