Re: Signal Strength on Atheros?

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

This was discussed in the past, the end result was that the Atheros
card reports signal strength differently than other cards.  I think
Robert Love posted a patch for it but it was not implemented since the
NM devs want to avoid making special case exceptions.

Here are some links to previous discussions on the subject:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-February/msg00063.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-January/msg00141.html

Here is the madwifi teams take on the subject:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/RSSI

On 4/30/06, Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My ath_pci card is showing signal strength at about half of what it
> should be. This is consistent with how iwlist shows it, but the GNOME
> wireless applet has always shown it correctly.
>
> I don't know off-hand if it's always special cased, but it looks like it
> might have to be. Maybe when they support the wireless extensions this
> will be fixed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --Pat
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