Re: Wavelan plugin for 4.4

On Thu, 04 May 2006 18:38:07 +0200, 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,
> 
> 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.

I can test it on the campus next monday. I have a Thinkpad (with
Centrino, ipw2200) and just compiled the wavelan plugin successfully.

Regards,
Jannis

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