On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Alistair John Strachan <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 27 July 2008 16:07:05 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> 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. > > This is probably an issue of not RTFM'ing (sorry), but are there documents > enabling Joe User to contribute this kind of thing? No documents, just the source. > How much of the XXX fixups are you planning on doing yourself, and how many > would you like help with? We plan on doing a lot, I'll post a new series in a few minutes with about 15 patches from us. If you'd like to work on the link quality that would be greatly welcomed. What you can expect from us soon is more enhancements to STA, enabling IBSS, and AP. If it helps we can try to come up with a list of elements we can take care of and a few others we can use community help with. But in general patches from the community are greatly welcomed and encouraged. We all just want the best driver possible. We can also coordinate if you want to work on something in particular. 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
