On Fri, 1 Apr 2022, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
On Sat, 26 Mar 2022, J.R. Oldroyd wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, 26 Mar 2022 09:58:12 -0700 Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 3:28 AM Takashi Inoue
<inoue.taka...@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.
I am actually not sure if the values in iwm are correct; there is a
factor-2 calculation in there which I believe is only done for max tx
power of older cards based on eeprom values but not for the rssi
anymore in iwlwifi. I haven't started digging where that originated,
so hard to say.
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.
Quick shot. I just pushed two changes to main for anyone who wants to
try.
If you are on stable/13 and want to test them early you can (unitl
they'll be merged):
git cherry-pick -x 4a22cd6c4e5f4fc4a38aa7400742d4005c5ae3de
git cherry-pick -x 60970a328e280b25b05f1d9a9de1ef91af573c4a
Let me know if values start to look more reasonable.
Okay, changes are in stable/13 now as well. Let me know if things got
better please.
Bjoern
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