From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wireless statistics for bcm43xx-d80211
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:56:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153317379.2537.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44BDB400.40408@lwfinger.net>
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 23:24 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> I have gotten most things working to produce wireless statistics through /proc/net/wireless for
> bcm43xx-d80211; however, I have one problem that I have not yet been able to solve. When I do a 'cat
> /proc/net/wireless', the following is printed:
>
> Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
> face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 20
> wmaster0: 0000 100. 0. 0. 0 0 0 0 0 0
> wlan1: 0000 100. -26. -67. 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
> Based on the numbers obtained using bcm43xx-softmac for my interface, the numbers for level and
> noise for wlan1 are what I expected (in dBm). The link value has not yet been finished. The main
> problem is that the wireless kicker applet for KDE, which I use for a display, is only looking at
> the first line, and never sees the wlan1 data - only the wmaster0 results.
>
> Is there some way to detect that the master interface is being interrogated, and return data for the
> attached STA instead?
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.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-19 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-19 4:24 Wireless statistics for bcm43xx-d80211 Larry Finger
2006-07-19 11:13 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <44BDB400.40408-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2006-07-19 12:59 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-19 13:56 ` Dan Williams [this message]
[not found] ` <1153317379.2537.2.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2006-07-19 19:42 ` Larry Finger
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