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Subject: Re: project evil: signal quality
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 05:01:07PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > >
> > > Are newer drivers available?
> >
> > Given that your ndis0 -l option for wicontrol works here, I doubt that this
> > is a driver issue. I'll try to find time to look why -i ndis0 fails
> > to report the quality..
> 
> Why do you say that?
> I am talking about the Windows driver - perhaps it doesn't report signal 
> quality in a standard way.

I assumed, and now that seems wrong, that there is only one
way the signal quality was retrieved. (the -l option uses an ioctl, whereas
the option I used uses a socket.

-Guido