From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 17:59:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C252F1065675; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:59:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82DE58FC1A; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:59:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from trouble.errno.com (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id m3NHZNr7096495 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <480F735A.4080001@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:35:22 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Coleman Kane References: <1208971129.6154.13.camel@localhost> <1208971281.6154.18.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1208971281.6154.18.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-Rhyolite-Metrics: ebb.errno.com; whitelist Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, marcus@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update to net/gnome-netstatus to support new wlan system in -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:59:01 -0000 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