Re: [patch] don't display very-low-strength APs.

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:10 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

> Hmm, my concern with this is that not all cards do support this yet, and
> not all cards conform to the WEXT spec.  For instance, ipw2100 cards
> don't seem to work with the latest stable ipw2100 driver.  The all show
> 0 strength.
> 
> Before I patched the cisco driver to fix wireless strength (which got
> accepted and applied to 2.6.12), they all showed 0 strength too.
> 
> I don't think we're at a point where we can flip the switch.  It would
> also be nice to have NM trigger a network switch if the current network
> is < 5% for at least 2 scans, and there's another network in range,
> stuff like that.  But I don't feel comfortable doing this yet until more
> drivers get fixed to conform to the spec.

Okay.  If there is a card out there that returns zero for all strengths,
then I agree.

Forget the patch, for now.

(Doing the auto-migrate thing you suggest is another, separate, idea
that I would like to do, too, once possible.)

	Robert Love