I had to correct a couple of issues in KWlanInfo before the values it displayed on my system made any sense: - The iwreq structure (particularly the iwr.data.length field) isn't properly initialized before invoking the SIOCGIWESSID and SIOCGIWNICKN ioctls to query the ESSID and Nickname. - The program assumes the SIOCGIWFREQ ioctl to return the current frequency, but some drivers return the channel number instead (though this is deprecated). I have added a trivial workaround for that case. At least the ipw2200 driver used to behave that way before version 1.1.3, other drivers might still do so. - The displayed channel number might be wrong due to inaccurate rounding. I've sent my patch to the original author about half a year ago, but unfortunately he's to busy to apply it and release a new version. So, I figured it might still be useful to other Gentoo users.
Created attachment 96478 [details, diff] Proposed patch for all three issues
(In reply to comment #0) > I've sent my patch to the original author about half a year ago, but > unfortunately he's to busy to apply it and release a new version. 6/8 months ago? Please consider filing a bug upstream (bugs.kde.org) - we are unlikely to support patches refused by upstream. If upstream cba to accept it, it reflects pretty poorly on them.
(In reply to comment #2) > Please consider filing a bug upstream (bugs.kde.org) - we are > unlikely to support patches refused by upstream. kwlaninfo is not an official KDE project, is it? I don't think they feel responsible for it. Upstream, in this case, refers to a single coder who hasn't shown any activity for almost two years now. Anyway, since there doesn't seem to be any equivalent tool around (what with kwirelessmonitor growing more and more unstable and finally being dropped from portage) I thought my patches might actually be useful to others. They certainly are to me.
Created attachment 103349 [details, diff] New version of the patch. A recent change in the kernel's wireless layer triggered yet another bug in kwlanino, now the applet will display an error message due to a failed ioctl() whenever the mouse hovers above it. New patch attached.
I've just sent an email to upstream to ask about KWlanInfo's status and this patch.
Peter (upstream) just informed me that he will be using the patch for version 0.9.5 which he expects to provide in a few days. He's going to notify me when it's out.
This patch was included in version 0.9.5 which I've just committed to CVS.
