Re: wifimgr with iwlwifi

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On Sat, 26 Mar 2022, J.R. Oldroyd wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Mar 2022 09:58:12 -0700 Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 3:28 AM Takashi Inoue <inoue.takashi@nihon-u.ac.jp>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Do you use "wifimgr" which is a GUI tool to select AP.
>>> When I use "if_iwlfiwi.ko", wave strength displayed
>>> in wifimgr is 0 for all access point.
>>> Do you see this phenomenon? Or, does someone see this?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Takashi
>>>
>>
>> I'll have to leave the wifimge to others.
>
> Wifimgr parses the output of "ifconfig -v wlanN list scan" in order to
> compute the number of bars to display for the signal strength.
>
> With the iwm driver, I see s/n values like -49:-96 for my network.
> But with the iwlwifi driver, the values for the same network are -121:-96 .
>
> This large negative value for the signal strength is causing wifimgr
> to compute the number of bars as 0.
>
> Bjørn, is this something else to look at in the iwlwifi driver?

It's in the LinuxKPI 802.11 compat part.  I have XXX next to that and
on my TODO list now.

Lots of health,
Bjoern

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7
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