netapplet icon shows wrong strength (always very low)

[gatopeich]

Binary package hint: netapplet

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495895

Wireless icon in netapplet is designed with 4 strength bars tha reflect link
quality/strength. Only the first bar will ever be filled, though the tooltip
and pop-up menu reflect a quite accurate measure (85% as I write).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start netapplet.
2. Connect to a wireless access point.
3. Check that connection strength is good (> 50%)

Actual results:
See the icon stuck at the first bar, no matter how good the connection is.

Expected results:
I would expect the icon reflecting what I see on the tooltip.

Does this happen every time?
Yes, indeed.

Other information:
I have a patch, just one line in file src/netapplet.c:
  1410c1410
  < strength = netapplet->link_quality;
  ---
  > strength = netapplet->active_ap->strength;

"netapplet->link_quality" seems to be rarely updated (never in my system),
whereas "ap->strength" is used for tooltips and pop-up menu, which are all
right. This way the icon is coherent with the textual displays.

[gatopeich (gatoguan-os)]

Previous patch was giving some error when building debian package.
This one works seamlessly...

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

To get your fix included in Ubuntu, it would help if you tried transforming it into a debdiff (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Recipes/Debdiff) and submit it for review (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess). If you prefer somebody else to do that, that's fine - please just indicate if you're available to do that.

[gatopeich (gatoguan-os)]

Have a .debdiff ready and a working package netapplet_1.0.8-1ubuntu4_i386.deb.
Not sure about how to proceed now...

[c4f (crave420fubar)]

1. HP dv1000
with an internal broadcom corporation bcm4318 wireless modem b/g don't remember if a.
and have an external PCMCIA D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G DWL-G650 H/W Ver. B3 F/W Ver. 2.36
Ubuntu 32-bit V.9.10? (don't have the laptop in front of me as it is a friends)
2. Have installed fwcutter
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6077792&postcount=72
3. under the device drivers it says that the driver is enabled and in use but under the internet connections it says the device name and disabled in gray. (This is for internal)
4. D-link card seems to have same issue recognised at reboot but still shown in connections as disabled in gray.
5. Tryed to install netapplet (where did linux go wrong) ended up with a poorly thought out program synaptic or what ever for downloading packages or was it the poor instructions I don't know yet. It says netapplet is installed but there is no instructions on what, when, where or how on the program. The goal of installing this is to try to see if we can see my wireless network but I can't even find the program as it seems to be a background program.

The last version of Ubuntu I used was like 4 something and have used old redhat (fedora core 4) multiple versions of slax and on and on but this is the worst experience with any Linux distro I have ever had. (not that I have ever tried Linux with wireless) If some one could help please do and salvage my opinion of Ubuntu.