NetworkManager and Atheros Madwifi Drivers (Weak Signal Strength)

[Patton Echols]

Thanks for letting us know.  And thanks to Darren for doing this.


I installed the patched versions and find that NM now reports more 
signal strength, but not the same as network monitor reports.  Anyone 
know whether this is "normal" behavior? 

By the way, with the patched version, I  have not yet seen NM 
spontaneously drop the connection.  If that change appears to be real, 
(and not just me not noticing with only a couple of hours useage) then I 
am a happy camper regardless of the numbers reported.

Also, while I understand Dan's reasons for not wanting the patch to be 
in the official NM code, I can't for the life of me figure out why the 
ubuntu maintainers would not glom onto it immediately. **

** Course, if I'm so smart, why could I not get Robert Love's patch to 
work!?!  I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader ;-) 

Thanks again to all who helped out with this!

Patton

On 08/29/2007 09:01 PM, Nolan Garrett wrote:
> Just FYI, I did finally find a solution for this.  Darren Albers has
> patched and recompiled NM for Ubuntu Feisty.
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> http://www.darrenalbers.com/networkmanager/
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> It was as easy as downloading and using dpkg to install...
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> Thanks!
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> Nolan
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> Patton Echols wrote:
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>> If you find an answer to this, would you post here?  I went through this 
>> at one time, found a patch but apparently the wrong version.  Finally I 
>> just gave up.
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