Not getting quality with Wireless

[Jorden M]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
> Sent: 02/03/14 12:50 PM
> To: xmobar at projects.haskell.org
> Subject: Re: Not getting quality with Wireless
> 
> 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)?

I tried netdev, no dice. iwlist's output is the standard nn/mm format.

> 
> jao
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