Re: Ad-hoc connection extra information

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 10:46 +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in Sugar I would like to transfer a string with my ad-hoc connection 
> containing the color of the user creating the ad-hoc network. Does 
> anyone know if there is an extra field I can use? Otherwise I could add 
> it to the essid, but this is hacky of course.

Yeah, that's hacky, but probably the only way :(

> About signal strength: The creator of an ad-hoc network, will see a 
> signal strength of 0 in the UI. Maybe this should be set to 100% ? 
> AFAIK, I do not get a signal strength from NM when creating an ad-hoc 
> network. Intentional?

I've been trying to push responsibility for the signal strength thing to
the drivers, and have them report something sensible in this situation.
If that fails, I'm happy to override that in NM I guess.

Dan