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>
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> 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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