Not getting quality with Wireless

[Jorden M]

> ----- 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?

I don't see anything obviously wireless-related in my /etc/groups. I don't think it would be plugdev, either.

Any ideas?

> 
> Cheers,
> jao
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