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Bug 545899

Summary: rtl8180 shows 0% signal strength while connected
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: John W. Linville <linville>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 5.5CC: cmeadors, dzickus, jwilson, kernel-mgr, rlerch, shillman
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0001-wireless-correctly-report-signal-value-for-IEEE8021.patch none

Description John W. Linville 2009-12-09 15:59:34 UTC 
Wifi signal strength of any network the adapter is NOT associated with reads as
it should.  While connected to a network, all wifi utilities report 0 signal
strength.  

Although the signal strength is read as 0, the connection is fine and no
packets are being lost.
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2009-12-09 16:01:44 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 2 John W. Linville 2009-12-09 16:02:40 UTC 
Created attachment 377221 [details]
0001-wireless-correctly-report-signal-value-for-IEEE8021.patch
Comment 7 Don Zickus 2009-12-15 20:19:53 UTC 
in kernel-2.6.18-181.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Please update the appropriate value in the Verified field
(cf_verified) to indicate this fix has been successfully
verified. Include a comment with verification details.
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2010-03-30 07:44:41 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0178.html