Comment 9 for bug 378156

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:31 PM, petrock<email address hidden> wrote:
> I tried backports and it fixes the problem with the connection sometimes
> taking multiple tries and the problem of the connection just dropping
> for no apparent reason. However, the signal strength problem remains

A patch has been posted for this, it hasn't yet been merged into
wireless-testing though.

> . I
> helped a friend by an EeePC because my 1000 works well. But his is a
> 1000HE and uses different wireless hardware.

So why are you reporting this on the same bug report?

> Unless someone can tell us that we are missing a setting and this really
> isn't a bug, we are returning the ASUS netbook and going shopping for a
> different model in the next couple days. Right now we are looking hard
> at the MSI Wind netbook and Acer Aspire One models.

You need to provide more details in order to allow developer help you.
Pleas read:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/Reporting_bugs

  Luis