Ath0, netgear WG311T problem. [SOLVED]

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Thu May 11 09:15:06 PDT 2006


> From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au>
> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:37:38 +0930
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> On Thursday 11 May 2006 16:22, Yann Golanski wrote:
> > Now, all I need to do is to use some encryption and some find some
> 
> Use WPA - man wpa_supplicant.
> (Assuming your AP can support it)
> 
> > monitoring software to give me signal strength and things like that.
> > Any recommendations on either?
> 
> ifconfig ath0 scan? :)
> I see there is a gkrellm plugin in ports but I've never used it.

The gkrellm plugin only works for a few devices at this time and ath is
not one of them. It works for my old Prism 2.5 card, but not my new
Atheros. :-{

Maybe an interface to the 802.11 layer would make this plugin work for
all modern wireless cards. I really prefer gkrellm to the standard Gnome
monitoring tools.

Looks like Hajimu UMEMOTO has done much of the FreeBSD work on this
plugin. I cc'd him on this, but I have no idea if he has time or
interest.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


More information about the freebsd-mobile mailing list