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 |
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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)