From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net>
Subject: Re: avg-signal is weird in ath9k in 3.3.0
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:46:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F68ECC3.3000802@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F68DEE8.60506@candelatech.com>
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@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@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 <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-20 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-20 19:47 avg-signal is weird in ath9k in 3.3.0 Ben Greear
2012-03-20 20:46 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2012-03-20 22:22 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-03-21 2:11 ` Ben Greear
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