[PATCH] wpa_gui-qt4: improve scan results signal display

Jouni Malinen j
Sat Nov 19 10:12:06 PST 2011


On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 09:32:41AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> Display signal strength in dBm with visual indicator in the form
> of a bar for scan results displayed by wpa_gui-qt4. Any signal > -35dBm is
> treated as full signal bar, signals between range of -95<->-35dBm are
> displayed linearly. Convert WEXT signal level value to scale that nl80211
> typically reports in dBm. The condition which differentiates 8-bit WEXT dBm
> and regular dBm is probably fragile, but there is currently no way to know
> what the driver is going to report for signal strength.

Thanks! Applied.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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