[ltp] airo_mpi and wireless extensions

[Fabrice Bellet]

Hello,

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 03:31:00AM -0500, Dan Borello wrote:
> The airo_mpi driver appears to be working great.  iw* (including
> iwconfig) seem to be working perfectly.  Now I am just trying to get
> gnome's Wireless Link Monitor to work correctly.  It just shows a big
> "N/A" no matter if eth1 or wifi0 is selected.  Is this a driver issue
> (not all extensions?) or more likely just me.

I think this a problem on the wireless-applet side.
see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119471 and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119472

There's also a range problem with the airo_mpi driver, compared to
the airo driver. With the airo, the quality ranges from 0 to 10, 10 being
the best quality. With the airo_mpi, the same value read from the card 
ranges from 10 to  approx. 100, 10 being the best quality. You may want to 
try http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/airo_mpi.c-20030802, I scaled the
quality so that now, avg_qual.qual=50, max qual is 100, worst is 0, as
expected.

best wishes,
-- 
fabrice