Fred A. Miller wrote:
Now, my question is, has anyone else noticed any improvement? What was done in the new kernel to bring about all this joy and glad tidings near Christmas? ;)
Thanks,
Fred
Fred, far be it for me to play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge this time of year, but I learned earlier with 10.3 that the connection strength meter is basically an arbitrary computation of signal strength. With my Atheros card the meter did just the opposite. Through kernel and driver updates the meter went from showing full strength all the time to showing 1/2 or 3/4 strength 2 feet away from the AP. All connections still worked flawlessly. Digging into the update, one of the changes I was made aware of was a change in signal strength computation that caused the difference in signal strength display. Nothing regarding the actual physical signal strength changed, just the calculation for defining it. Connection behavior have improved with a more extensive connection caching feature that allows your box to remember more of the wireless connections it has previously been connected to. This is a real plus and has made life much easier. Once you have entered all connection authentication parameters once, it is usually just a matter of right-clicking knetworkmanager and selecting the site if knetworkmanager doesn't do it automatically. You case may be different with real milestones being made, but the new found connection strength may be numerical only as well. Bah humbug..... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org