Re: hidden ssid's

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 10:08 +0100, Sebastien Estienne wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:40:49 -0500, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 23:20 -0500, Bill Moss wrote:
> > > I have the Nov 17 CVS development distribution working with a fully
> > > update installation of FC3 on a IBM T42 with version 0.16 of the ipw2200
> > > driver. So far it is working nicely on my home network which broadcasts
> > > its SSID, except that the signal strength bar in the Info popup is
> > > empty. I think this is an issue for the ipw2200 driver and I have
> > > submitted a bug report.
> > 
> > Yes, the ipw2200 drivers don't report _any_ signal strength for scanned
> > access points, and the ipw2100 drivers don't either.  What's worse, last
> > I checked the ipw2100 drivers didn't do it for your current Access Point
> > either.  Driver bug.
> > 
> Are you sure that it's still valid? because ipw2100 drivers are
> version 1.0.1 since november 19. and the signal strength seems to work
> for me for many months.
> http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/

Ok, I have this backwards and slightly wrong.  The ipw2100 drivers _do_
support connected-AP-quality, but not scan quality.  And the ipw2200
drivers have gotten connected-AP-quality in the last 2 months, but still
don't have scan quality.  In both cases:

ipw2100_translate_scan():
#if 0
	/* Add quality statistics */
	/* TODO: Fix these values... */
	iwe.cmd = IWEVQUAL;
	iwe.u.qual.qual = network->stats.signal;
	iwe.u.qual.level = network->stats.rssi;
	iwe.u.qual.noise = network->stats.noise;
	iwe.u.qual.updated = network->stats.mask & IEEE80211_STATMASK_WEMASK;

	start = iwe_stream_add_event(start, stop, &iwe, IW_EV_QUAL_LEN);
#endif

Thanks for making me look again :)

Dan