wl - Wireless always at 100%

[Mike Basinger]

Binary package hint: network-manager

The wireless signal strength on my Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 card always shows 100% strength.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sat Sep 26 10:19:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.197 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 proto static
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20090923t064445.b20cef2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
RfKill:
 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

driver bug ... moving to linux-restricted-modules.

[udippel (udippel)]

Are you sure about the driver?
This is still on in Kubuntu 12.04. The screenshot shows the situation. I am actually far away from the access point, though the applet shows 100%. Which is not quite confirmed by iwconf and a distance of 10 m through a number of thick walls.

[udippel (udippel)]

Ooops, all wrong image. My excuses!
Here comes the good one!