Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:35:22 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, marcus@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update to net/gnome-netstatus to support new wlan system in -CURRENT Message-ID: <480F735A.4080001@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1208971281.6154.18.camel@localhost> References: <1208971129.6154.13.camel@localhost> <1208971281.6154.18.camel@localhost>
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Coleman Kane wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:18 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I put together some changes to the net/gnome-netstatus applet to allow
>> it to detect and work with the new wlan interface system that was just
>> introduced in CURRENT.
>>
>> This new code doesn't identify non-wlanN interfaces as wifi anymore.
>>
>> I think it may need some help in getting signal-strength detection
>> properly using the if_ndis driver. Mine keeps telling me that the signal
>> strength is always 100% no matter where I walk in my apt.
>>
>>
>
> Yes, I do mean to actually attach the patch too.
>
>
As I told you previously keying off the ifnet name is a mistake. What
you can do is check the media status and for any 802.3 interface look
for a backpointer in the MIB to a parent device that must be marked as
an 802.11 device. Right now this can be defeated if ifnet is renamed
such that you cannot identify the wlanX unity # to find the MIB entry
under net.wlan.X.%parent.
Separately you appear to have added "an", "rum", and "ray". I'm not
sure what this code does but again using ifnet names is a mistake. In
7.x you can do a similar search of the net.wlan.X MIB space using the
%parent backpointer to identify an 802.11 device. wlandebug.c has crude
code you can crib (for 7.x).
I don't recall if 6.x has the backpointer in the MIB namespace to use.
Sam
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