Re: Ad-hoc connection extra information

[Simon Schampijer <simon schampijer de>]

Hi Dan,

thanks for the quick follow up.

On 08/12/2009 06:37 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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 :(

Ok.

> > 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

Yeah, I was guessing that it was the driver's responsibility. I can have 
a look on the other machines, if those drivers report the 0 as well.

Regards,
   Simon