From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:46:59 -0700 Subject: [ath9k-devel] avg-signal is weird in ath9k in 3.3.0 In-Reply-To: <4F68DEE8.60506@candelatech.com> References: <4F68DEE8.60506@candelatech.com> Message-ID: <4F68ECC3.3000802@candelatech.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On 03/20/2012 12:47 PM, Ben Greear wrote: > I'm testing out some code to get a stations's avg-signal through ethtool-stats, > and both it and /proc/net/wireless show ranges bouncing all over > (from around -48 to -110) on an interface running heavy traffic. > > Are there any known bugs in 3.3.0 related to this? Same with iw station dump: [root at lec2010-ath9k-1 lanforge]# iw dev sta1 station dump Station 00:88:99:88:99:01 (on sta1) inactive time: 2 ms rx bytes: 3646300587 rx packets: 10768068 tx bytes: 3444260988 tx packets: 10706688 tx retries: 187471399 tx failed: 2 signal: -47 dBm signal avg: -64 dBm tx bitrate: 130.0 MBit/s MCS 15 [root at lec2010-ath9k-1 lanforge]# iw dev sta1 station dump Station 00:88:99:88:99:01 (on sta1) inactive time: 1 ms rx bytes: 3655139651 rx packets: 10775853 tx bytes: 3452330988 tx packets: 10714184 tx retries: 187604280 tx failed: 2 signal: 16 dBm signal avg: -92 dBm tx bitrate: 130.0 MBit/s MCS 15 Thanks, Ben > > Thanks, > Ben > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com