https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404774 User jslaby@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404774#c14 --- Comment #14 from Jiri Slaby <jslaby@novell.com> 2008-11-22 09:54:33 MST --- (In reply to comment #13 from Steve Wesemeyer)
Using Linux, I usually don't get a connection at all and the wireless network does not show up in "kinternet->Wireless Connections". I have to physically go to my access point, get the laptop to connect and then I can go back downstairs and maintain the connection. However, the signal strength that iwlist and kinternet report is something like 50%. This is quite frustrating as you can imagine...
The numbers are relative, maybe only wrongly computed (e.g. wrong max signal strength, bug in driver, firmware, hardware...).
Once it is connected, it usually manages to reconnect but then again sometimes it doesn't...
Well, could you provide dmesg of such a situation?
So, in summary, the Windows driver is better at picking up the signals (ie more sensitive) than the Linux driver.
No, you can't utter that from the text above. As I already wrote, it depends on what windows enumerates as able-to-connect APs. Unless you can verify that you can connect to them, it tells us nothing. I suppose you have 3945 too? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.