Re: Wavelan plugin for 4.4

James Westby <[email protected]> Thu, 4 May 2006 17:34:44 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.xfce.goodies.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On (04/05/06 18:28), Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> James Westby wrote:
> >>I don't have a linux machine with a wlan card around right now, but the
> >>code looks good. Did you try with the /proc/net/wireless way?
> > 
> > $ cat /proc/net/wireless
> > Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               | Missed | WE
> >  face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc | beacon | 19
> > 
> > I guess there isn't much point. 
> > 
> > Is the lack of infomation here related to the ioctl problem, or just
> > because this is now deprecated and I'm using wireless.h version 18?
> 
> Maybe a driver problem. I'm not very familar with the linux wireless
> API, tho.
>

Maybe yes, though the old version worked. That is why I was looking for
a second opinion. 

Thanks for all your advice anyway,

James


(For anyone on the goodies-dev list that missed the start of the thread
I am looking for someone to test the wavelan plugin for the 4.4beta1
panel as it doesn't work with my wireless card)