wicontrol and Quality/Signal/Noise

[Eric Schuele]

Hello,

Something strange has happened since I installed a Atheros miniPCI 
device in my laptop.  In the past when I 'wicontrol -i ath0 -l', I 
would get correct info, including the quality/signal/noise info.

But now with the miniPCI device I get the following:
ap[0]:
        netname (SSID):                    [ My_SSID_1 ]
        BSSID:                                 [ 00:2f:68:60:ca:5c ]
        Channel:                              [ 1 ]
        Quality/Signal/Noise [signal]:  [ 0 / 0 / 0 ]
                                        [dBm]:  [ 0 / -149 / -149 ]
        BSS Beacon Interval [msec]:   [ 250 ]
        Capinfo:                              [ ESS WEP ]
        DataRate [Mbps]:                  [ 11 ]
ap[1]:
        netname (SSID):                   [ My_Neighbors_SSID ]
        BSSID:                                [ 00:11:95:07:be:ec ]
        Channel:                             [ 6 ]
        Quality/Signal/Noise [signal]:  [ 0 / 0 / 0 ]
                                [dBm]:          [ 0 / -149 / -149 ]
        BSS Beacon Interval [msec]:   [ 100 ]
        Capinfo:                              [ ESS ]
ap[2]:
        netname (SSID):                   [ My_SSID_2 ]
        BSSID:                                [ 00:06:23:b4:48:e9 ]
        Channel:                              [ 11 ]
        Quality/Signal/Noise [signal]:  [ 0 / 0 / 0 ]
                                [dBm]:          [ 0 / -149 / -149 ]
        BSS Beacon Interval [msec]:   [ 250 ]
        Capinfo:                               [ ESS WEP ]
        DataRate [Mbps]:                   [ 11 ]

If I place my Atheros pccard in the slot I still get no signal info... 
although I was getting it just before I installed the miniPCI device.

Has anyone seen anything like this, and is there a fix?  How did I break 
it?

I suppose I'll take the miniPCI out and try just the pccard... but I 
would prefer to use the miniPCI AND get the signal info.

Thanks for your help,
-- 
Regards,
Eric