Ath0, netgear WG311T problem. [SOLVED]

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 00:38:54 +0900
> From: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume at freebsd.org>
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> Hi,
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006 09:14:57 -0700
> >>>>> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> said:
> 
> > > monitoring software to give me signal strength and things like that.
> > > Any recommendations on either?
> > 
> > ifconfig ath0 scan? :)
> > I see there is a gkrellm plugin in ports but I've never used it.
> 
> oberman> The gkrellm plugin only works for a few devices at this time and ath is
> oberman> not one of them. It works for my old Prism 2.5 card, but not my new
> oberman> Atheros. :-{
> 
> oberman> Maybe an interface to the 802.11 layer would make this plugin work for
> oberman> all modern wireless cards. I really prefer gkrellm to the standard Gnome
> oberman> monitoring tools.
> 
> oberman> Looks like Hajimu UMEMOTO has done much of the FreeBSD work on this
> oberman> plugin. I cc'd him on this, but I have no idea if he has time or
> oberman> interest.
> 
> Are you mean grekkmwireless2?  If so, please try the attached patch.
> If okay, I'll send it to the author.
> 

Thanks! that was very fast.

It seems to work fine. My card seems to only report signal level and not
link quality or noise. Still, it's better than what I had yesterday and
I believe that it will report whatever is available to report for any
802.11 device. My Atheros seems to only provide signal quality.

Thank again! I suggest sending to Sjoerd to get it into the plugin.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634