Re: Network Manager reason codes

[Sven Nielsen <post svennielsen de>]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:50:07 +0000
mike cloaked <mike cloaked gmail com> wrote:


> This driver seems to refuse sens values in dBm - but only as positive
> numbers - so I am unsure what the appropriate value is in this case -
> but it seems that if the wireless driver is able to change the sens
> value and it can be set in dBm then your advice is good - however I
> did not realise there was so much variation in support on the driver
> side and this whole issue is a lot more complicated than I first
> realised!

Yes, every card / driver is different ;) And documentation on the parameters is sparse usually..

If your driver supports some "undefined" positive sens value you can experiment with different settings and
see if you find some relation to link quality perhaps, or, you just find a value that works for you.
Testing should be easy as you can just change the value while connected and walking the house. Have this
line running in some terminal then you see as soon as your card roams to the other AP:

while true; do iwconfig wlan0 |grep Access ; sleep 1; done

Good luck
Sven