Bug 109260

Summary: wireless monitor applet does not detect card
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mike Basinger <dbasinge>
Component: gnome-appletsAssignee: Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Mike Basinger 2003-11-06 06:23:06 UTC
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Description of problem:
wireless monitor applet does not detect wireless card (avaya gold card)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load wireless applet
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  wireless applet does not detect avaya gold card

Expected Results:  applet works fine

Additional info:

Comment 1 Roel Gloudemans 2003-11-15 10:13:04 UTC
Same here with a Dell Truemobile 1150 card (card if working fine;
iwconfig also). Depending on where the applet gets its info from;
/proc/net/wireless states:

Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               |
Missed
 face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc |
beacon
  eth1: 0000    0     0     0        0      0      0      0      0   
    0

Which could be linked to the problem

Comment 2 Daniel Roesen 2004-01-07 01:21:38 UTC
Similar problems here. In FC1 and RHL9, the applet always reports 100%,
although this is not the case.

Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               |
Missed | WE
 face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc |
beacon | 16
  eth1: 0000  130   193    77        0      0      0      0      0   
    0

No matter how bad connectivity is, it always displays 100%.

NetGear WG511 card, with Prism54 driver (www.prism54.org) CVS snapshot
from today. Also tested older ones with RHL9, same problem.

Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-19 13:37:31 UTC
The problem with the card not being detected is with the card's driver
- it needs to report the stats in /proc/net/wireless. If the driver is
part of Fedora, then log a bug against it there, otherwise you'll need
to log the bug with the upstream author.