Re: Wavelan plugin for 4.4

Benedikt Meurer <[email protected]> Thu, 04 May 2006 18:38:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.xfce.goodies.devel
Organization os-cillation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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,

If it worked with the old panel, then it should work as well now. Maybe
someone else with a Linux laptop and xfce 4.4 can have a look at this.
Otherwise I'll see to this during the next weeks when I get some spare
time to setup 4.4 on a linux laptop.

> James

Benedikt