Bug 150987

Summary: No connection strength showen
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: jim <fedorajim>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
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Description Flags
NM running
none
connection rate from mouse hover none

Description jim 2005-03-13 15:54:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
NM does't show connection strength

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.3.4-1.1.0.fc3
NetworkManager-gnome-0.3.4-1.1.0.fc3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run NetworkManagerInfo
2.
3.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:
show signal strength

Additional info: When mouse hovers NM  shows % connection  if you click NM to
show the list of networks when first connecting or after a connection has been
made, doesn't show the connection strength in the bar. See image below
Comment 1 jim 2005-03-13 15:54:44 UTC 
Created attachment 111944 [details]
NM running
Comment 2 jim 2005-03-13 15:55:35 UTC 
Created attachment 111945 [details]
connection rate from mouse hover
Comment 3 Rene Rask 2005-03-25 09:50:52 UTC 
Confirming this bug.
Hardware: IBM X40, ipw2200 wireless.

The problem occurred after updating from release 0.3.3-1.cvs20050119 to
0.3.4-1.1.0 in fedora core 3.

I think this was working on an atheros based wireless card I was trying to get
working the other day. I do remember thinking "hey, it shows signal strengt with
this card", and I think it was before I tried downgrading NM to get around the
"F... you. your dhcp server is sending on a wrong udp port" message.
Comment 4 Dan Williams 2005-05-05 19:36:23 UTC 
only the latest ipw2200 & ipw2100 drivers actually provide usable strength... 
Can you try with one of those and see how it works?
Comment 5 jim 2005-05-05 21:38:14 UTC 
drivers I am using
ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at
ipw2200-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at

meter in sustem tray shows strength 
but actual wireless network show none
Comment 6 Dan Williams 2005-05-16 19:58:37 UTC 
Yeah, the scanning code that does strength is different than the code that gets
the _current_ connection strength.  This is a driver issue in ipw2200, and may
already be fixed with later versions of the driver...

I'm fairly sure ipw2200-1.0.3 will work.