[Bug 469026] New: wireless network bars stop at two even next to source.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026 Summary: wireless network bars stop at two even next to source. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bob_l_lewis@yahoo.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-2.5 Firefox/3.0.5 The signal strength bars only have two bars out of the four even when I am right next to the wireless router. It doesn't seem to be an accurate indicator. XP does show the signal as high. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026 User bob_l_lewis@yahoo.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026#c1 --- Comment #1 from Robert Lewis <bob_l_lewis@yahoo.com> 2009-01-23 15:06:12 MST --- This is on an HP laptop Model: Pavilion dv5237cl using PROWireless 3945ABG I have from others that they see the same issue. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026 User jrobiso2@ford.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026#c2 Jonathon Robison <jrobiso2@ford.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jrobiso2@ford.com --- Comment #2 from Jonathon Robison <jrobiso2@ford.com> 2009-01-25 17:01:56 MST --- Ditto on Dell Latitude D620. However, upgrading the firmware to the latest from Intel fixed it. Of course, rather than re-compile, I installed the new firmware and symlinked it to the old firmware's name (iwlwifi-3945-1 to iwlwifi-3945-2) -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026 User jrobiso2@ford.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026#c3 --- Comment #3 from Jonathon Robison <jrobiso2@ford.com> 2009-01-26 21:02:59 MST --- Note: went back to old firmware on recommendation of Helmut while we work on another bug, and the 2 bars issue is back. So there are solid pointers to the firmware. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026 Jonathon Robison <jrobiso2@ford.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026 User chrubis@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026#c4 Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |chrubis@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |ovo.novell.com |ovo.novell.com --- Comment #4 from Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@novell.com> 2009-02-13 05:36:38 MST --- I'm not sure we can do something with broken firmware. Moving to kernel maintainers. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026 User jrobiso2@ford.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026#c5 --- Comment #5 from Jonathon Robison <jrobiso2@ford.com> 2009-02-13 06:38:21 MST --- Strange - I recently got sick and tired of KDE 4.X and went back to 3.X. Took a while, but I removed the entire kde4 pattern. Nothing left but kde3.x. Only the kde-updater-applet is kde4. And guess what? Now I have bars that actually reflect strength again. Perhaps this really IS an issue with the KDE4 knetworkmanager? This system was updated from 11.0, itself updated from 10.3. I have another drive with a "fresh" 11.1 install that's running KDE4 and showing the same symptom. Sometime today I will knock that system down to KDE3 too, and we'll get a second chance to see if that's the problem source. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026 User bob_l_lewis@yahoo.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026#c6 --- Comment #6 from Robert Lewis <bob_l_lewis@yahoo.com> 2009-03-01 10:20:00 MST --- The HP laptop that I reported this against is using KDE3 and I see the lack of bars on that machine. I do have a desktop running KDE4 but no wireless on it so I can't make a comparison. The point being I am not seeing proper bars with 11.1 and KDE3. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026 User jrobiso2@ford.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469026#c7 --- Comment #7 from Jonathon Robison <jrobiso2@ford.com> 2009-03-02 05:50:48 MST --- Issue still exists on fresh install. If the driver has been rmmod'd, then modprobed, bars seem to work normally. But on normal startup, still stuck with 2. Symptoms are all over the place on this one. -- 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.
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