Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754597AbZG1VBQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:01:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754521AbZG1VBP (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:01:15 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:40114 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753453AbZG1VBO (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:01:14 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Andrew Morton , Zhu Yi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: 31-rc3-mmotm0716 - wonky wireless statistics.. From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1248814870_4259P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:01:10 -0400 Message-ID: <5934.1248814870@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1981 Lines: 50 --==_Exmh_1248814870_4259P Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Id: <5914.1248814854.1@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Dell Latitude D820 laptop, lspci reports the network card as: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Netwo rk Connection (rev 02) iwlwifi driver in use, card associated via wpa_supplicant but not being actively used # iwconfig wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"VT-Wireless" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447 GHz Access Point: 00:11:20:A4:4C:10 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key: [2] Link Quality=62/70 Signal level=-48 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 # cat /proc/net/wireless Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 22 wlan0: 0000 63. -47. -256 0 0 0 0 0 0 wlan1: 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 wlan2: 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Where did that -256 for "noise" come from? It ends up confusing the gkrellm-wifi plugin, it reports a S/N of 219dB ;) --==_Exmh_1248814870_4259P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFKb2cWcC3lWbTT17ARAvBpAJ9go5v/W46n8FSib4lHLX/SlRk+MACeIzQj mesuP854E7Uj2aq+8IBWTOU= =O9/5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1248814870_4259P-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/