Not getting quality with Wireless

[Jose A. Ortega Ruiz]

On Mon, Feb 03 2014, Jorden M wrote:

>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
>> Sent: 02/03/14 12:15 PM
>> To: Jorden M
>> Subject: Re: Not getting quality with Wireless
>> 
>> Hi Jorden,
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 31 2014, Jorden M wrote:
>> 
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Xmobar gets the essid, but the quality is always zero. I use a
>> > broadcom card with the wl driver.
>> 
>> I have never experienced a problem like that. I'm also using the wl
>> driver, but my card is a realtek. We use a C library to talk to the
>> driver, maybe there's some quirk with broadcom cards... does iwconfig
>> report Link Quality? E.g., right now, if i run iwconfig in a terminal i
>> see, among other things:
>> 
>>  Link Quality=44/70 Signal level=-66 dBm 
>> 
>> Do you see something similar?
>
> Only with sudo. So I guess there's some kind of group xmobar needs to
> be in on ubongo 12.04?

That's fine, i also need sudo to run iwconfig.  xmobar is not using
iwconfig, but calling a C-function that talks directly to the driver
using iwlib.  If you see the ESSID and it's correct, xmobar is already
accessing the driver and should need no extra permissions, as far as i
can tell... in my list of groups, i see 'netdev', in case that makes a
difference.

I take it that the link quality you see with iwconfig looks normal (a/b
with a and b positive integers)?

jao
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