Re: Question regarding Madwifi signal strength

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 6/8/07, Simon Geard <delgarde ihug co nz> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 23:10 +1200, Simon Geard wrote:
>
> Ok, running the latest madwifi driver from SVN now. Doesn't seem any
> different from previous versions - I'm seeing roughly the same signals
> in NM as before. Is the following output from iwlist of any interest to
> you?
>
>     00:17:9A:12:31:72 : Quality=49/70  Signal level=-46 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
>     00:14:7C:AD:39:92 : Quality=120/70  Signal level=-256 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
>     00:14:BF:3D:5F:ED : Quality=13/70  Signal level=-82 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
>     00:18:4D:05:20:D0 : Quality=4/70  Signal level=-91 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
>     00:16:E3:58:B0:C8 : Quality=3/70  Signal level=-92 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
>     00:0F:3D:B3:F0:68 : Quality=10/70  Signal level=-85 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
>
>
> Incidentally, I don't suppose you could point me to the patch for NM you
> referred to in your email?
>
> Simon.

Thanks Simon!  That is too bad.  I dragged my card out as well and saw
the same issue you did.

Robert Love's patches were first posted here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-January/msg00141.html

If you happen to be running Ubuntu there is an open bug at with a
version of the patch that applies clean to the version (0.6.4) that
Ubuntu ships:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/69709

I built some packages with this patch at:
http://www.darrenalbers.com/networkmanager
If you use those packages make sure you remove network-manager and
network-manager-gnome first.

Let me know if the patches bring things closer to normal for you.