Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.236]:50094 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993338AbXEBPSA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 11:18:00 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id o1so165719nzf for ; Wed, 02 May 2007 08:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 17:17:59 +0200 From: "dragoran dragoran" To: "Larry Finger" Subject: Re: mac80211 and signal strength reporting Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4638A68C.3000600@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <46384D34.9080505@gmail.com> <4638A68C.3000600@lwfinger.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 5/2/07, Larry Finger wrote: > dragoran wrote: > > Hello, > > while testing iwlwifi (which works fine now btw) I noticed that the > > signal strenght reporting when using mac80211 is broken: > > iwconfig only show dBm value.... > > gnome-netstatus always shows 0% > > networkmanager always shows 100% > > whats going on? does some has any idea? > > is this a known bug or is iwlwifi the culprit? > > A little of both. The wireless statistics code in mac80211 has some strange > conventions. I worked > for a while on improving it, but there are multiple opinions regarding the > use of terms such as > "level" and "signal". After a few tries, I dropped that part and made > bcm43xx-mac80211 conform to > the mac80211 conventions. Now there are lines like "Link Quality=77/100 > Signal level=-49 dBm Noise > level=-73 dBm" in the iwconfig output. These values look reasonable. > ok I don't see any of them when using iwlwifi ..so its a iwlwifi bug? (resend) > Larry >