[ltp] T61 Atheros wireless LED

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:22:15 -0400, Robert T. West (Tim) wrote:
> Thanks for the responses, guys...
> 
> > - The signal reception is weak. For example if in Windows it reports 90%
> > strength in Ubuntu it will report something like 65-70%.
> 
> That's very definitely the case with mine as well. In fact, it mine
> was reporting 20% or so less than 3 feet from the router. That's with
> a WRT150N, which is admittedly weaker than my old WRT54GL, but Windows
> reports it much higher with the exact same hardware, and works pretty
> much flawlessly with it (I'm dual-booting for the time being).

AFAIK you can not compare that. The reported signal strength is a value
that has to be translated from some data received from the card.
Comparing between different hardware, drivers or even operating systems
is therefore pretty pointless.

Regards,
Tino