I was considering a new Macbook Pro but the madwifi signal strength issue causes problems for me and while Robert's patch for NM helps the connection strength is still reported less than an Intel card at the same location.
So I was looking on the Madwifi page to see if there had ever been any proposed patches to the madwifi code that resolve the issue but were never checked into the core when I found this page: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/RSSI It says: "As of MadWiFi version 0.9.3, the noise floor is no longer assumed to be a constant -95 dBm. The noise floor is now updated on each receive interrupt by calling out to the HAL, which returns the absolute noise level in dBm. However, because each interrupt can service several packets we cannot get a noise reading for each and every packet. MadWiFi simply takes the measured noise level at each interrupt and assumes all packets serviced during the interrupt were received with this noise level. The measured noise is not used during scanning at present, so all scan results return with a noise level of -95 dBm." Do the above changes seem like they resolved these issues or maybe not affect it at all? I can dig out my atheros card (it's in the attic!) and find out if nobody knows but I figured it would save me the hassle of climbing up there if someone already has checked. Thanks! _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list