3G USB stick/modem: reading out / displaying signal strength
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Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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3G USB stick/modem: reading out / displaying signal strength
I want to point my antenna at the strongest signal. So I intend to turn it step by step and read out signal strength, stopping at the best direction. How can I read out and / or display the actual signal strength?
EDIT:thought you look for wlan, for 3G try http://sourceforge.net/projects/comgt/ as wvdial doesn't seem to support signal stenght, that may be displayed in ubuntu nm-applet.
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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I downloaded it right away, installed it and would you believe it? It says "Can't write to /dev/ttyUSB1" while I am root, not to mention that "ls la" yields "crw-rw----" Currently I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
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Currently I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
