Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:04:33 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: Sam Leffler <sam@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: <1208973873.6154.31.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <480F7607.5050004@freebsd.org> References: <1208971129.6154.13.camel@localhost> <1208971281.6154.18.camel@localhost> <480F735A.4080001@freebsd.org> <1208972527.6154.24.camel@localhost> <480F7607.5050004@freebsd.org>
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--=-HNIi/YSFFzq1v9WhI5vf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 10:46 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > Coleman Kane wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 10:35 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > > =20 > >> Coleman Kane wrote: > >> =20 > >>> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:18 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: > >>> =20 > >>> =20 > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I put together some changes to the net/gnome-netstatus applet to all= ow > >>>> it to detect and work with the new wlan interface system that was ju= st > >>>> 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 si= gnal > >>>> strength is always 100% no matter where I walk in my apt. > >>>> > >>>> =20 > >>>> =20 > >>> Yes, I do mean to actually attach the patch too. > >>> > >>> =20 > >>> =20 > >> As I told you previously keying off the ifnet name is a mistake. What= =20 > >> you can do is check the media status and for any 802.3 interface look=20 > >> for a backpointer in the MIB to a parent device that must be marked as= =20 > >> an 802.11 device. Right now this can be defeated if ifnet is renamed=20 > >> such that you cannot identify the wlanX unity # to find the MIB entry=20 > >> under net.wlan.X.%parent. > >> > >> Separately you appear to have added "an", "rum", and "ray". I'm not=20 > >> sure what this code does but again using ifnet names is a mistake. In= =20 > >> 7.x you can do a similar search of the net.wlan.X MIB space using the=20 > >> %parent backpointer to identify an 802.11 device. wlandebug.c has cru= de=20 > >> code you can crib (for 7.x). > >> > >> I don't recall if 6.x has the backpointer in the MIB namespace to use. > >> > >> Sam > >> > >> =20 > > > > The original code was written this way, so I was just mimicking it. You= r > > idea sounds a lot more stable. The addition of the "rum" and "ray" > > interfaces is done by the original patch, as the upstream GNOME code > > hadn't been written to expect either of those yet. The "an" device isn'= t > > added, it's part of the surrounding text of the patch. You're looking a= t > > a patch-of-a-patch... > > > > Anyhow, I'm not the original author but these changes probably make it > > better now than it was before (and my netstatus applet works now). I'll > > see if I can find some time to re-implement this properly over the > > weekend. We might be able to get more iface info in there as well. > > > > =20 > Ok, thanks. FWIW there is a large body of 802.11-related code that=20 > should be lifted form various parts of the src tree into a lib80211 or=20 > similar. For example there is now an XML database of regulatory domain=20 > information that ifconfig uses. UI apps could easily want to use this=20 > info along w/ many other bits that are mostly used by ifconfig at the=20 > moment. >=20 > I am happy to work w/ anyone that's interested in this. >=20 > Sam >=20 Sam, Maybe this would be a better application of my time... I'll start looking into it this weekend...dump some info onto wiki.freebsd.org....etc... Then port gnome-netstatus to that in some manner (while preserving prior compatibility). I still recommend applying my changes to the port in the meantime, as it will ensure that current users aren't twiddling their thumbs on a now-broken applet. --=20 Coleman Kane --=-HNIi/YSFFzq1v9WhI5vf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkgPei8ACgkQcMSxQcXat5cXPQCgggL2VTjhtAvx4wkub2k5O232 pzUAni8jlSMUD4/wtGXGwnXjk/8G0nRy =5NvP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-HNIi/YSFFzq1v9WhI5vf--
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