On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 22:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 22:41 +0200, Gennady N. Uraltsev wrote:
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Version: 3.2.17-1
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: upstream
> > 
> > The ipw2100 module fails to report signal strength.
> 
> ...when scanning.
> 
> > With a Intel 2100 3B mini card this makes it impossible to use standard 
> > tools
> > for wireless. As a matter of fact roaming decisions and many others of 
> > standard
> > software are based on these values.
> [...]
> 
> This appears to be a hardware/firmware limitation, which will not be
> fixed.

I'm forwarding this on to linux-wireless in case someone can see a way
to fix this.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
All extremists should be taken out and shot.

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