Question regarding wlan plugin's definition of signal quality...

[James Westby]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:01 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On 1/11/08, Andrew Robinson <andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Try running iwconfig. It should print the correct number
> 
> I can report similar problems on Gentoo. The WaveLAN plugin and
> iwconfig dispaly different signal figures for the signal quality.
> Usually, the plugin is much more optimistic.

Hi,

The plugin uses the same values as iwconfig, however it just combines
them in to one number.

When iwconfig displays 78/100 it is showing value/maximum. The
assumption
is that this is a linear scale. However the plugin uses logarithms
rather than a straight percentage calculation, hence the "strange"
values. I am not sure why this is the case as it predates me. I guess
as most will just assume that it is a simple percentage we could
just change it to that.

If no-one objects to having their wireless signal strength reduced
then I will release a new version when the FreeBSD fixes have been
finalised, provided that doesn't take too long.

Thanks,

James