Dan Williams wrote:
Actually, now that I think about it, why are _any_ applets screen-scraping /proc/net/wireless anymore? If they profess to be a wireless applet, yet screenscrape /proc/net/wireless, that's suspect right there. The ioctls for status are quite well-defined and haven't changed in a very long time (ie, SIOCGIWRANGE). On the flip side, /proc/net/wireless has been supported since the dawn of time (ok, not really) and is the textual interface for reporting wireless statistic, but maybe that shouldn't be the case anymore.
I finally found the source for the applet, and it is using iwlib to get the statistics. If the kernel's version of WE is really old, it will use /proc/net/wireless. For newer kernels, it is using the appropriate ioctl. When I get time, I will fix the error and submit a patch to KDE.
As an interim workaround, I downloaded and built kwlaninfo, a different KDE kicker applet. I don't like it very much but it does show the needed info.
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