Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 19:36:54 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> Cc: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, ktsin@acm.org, Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org> Subject: Re: Ath0, netgear WG311T problem. [SOLVED] Message-ID: <20060515023654.6F0E845042@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 May 2006 00:38:54 %2B0900." <yger72wpqep.wl%ume@mahoroba.org>
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> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 00:38:54 +0900 > From: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> > > --Multipart_Mon_May_15_00:38:53_2006-1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Hi, > > >>>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006 09:14:57 -0700 > >>>>> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> said: > > > > monitoring software to give me signal strength and things like that. > > > Any recommendations on either? > > > > ifconfig ath0 scan? :) > > I see there is a gkrellm plugin in ports but I've never used it. > > oberman> The gkrellm plugin only works for a few devices at this time and ath is > oberman> not one of them. It works for my old Prism 2.5 card, but not my new > oberman> Atheros. :-{ > > oberman> Maybe an interface to the 802.11 layer would make this plugin work for > oberman> all modern wireless cards. I really prefer gkrellm to the standard Gnome > oberman> monitoring tools. > > oberman> Looks like Hajimu UMEMOTO has done much of the FreeBSD work on this > oberman> plugin. I cc'd him on this, but I have no idea if he has time or > oberman> interest. > > Are you mean grekkmwireless2? If so, please try the attached patch. > If okay, I'll send it to the author. > Thanks! that was very fast. It seems to work fine. My card seems to only report signal level and not link quality or noise. Still, it's better than what I had yesterday and I believe that it will report whatever is available to report for any 802.11 device. My Atheros seems to only provide signal quality. Thank again! I suggest sending to Sjoerd to get it into the plugin. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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