From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f176.google.com ([209.85.219.176]:51957 "EHLO mail-ew0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754623AbZDWLj6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:39:58 -0400 Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so450921ewy.37 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:39:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1240483530.30082.178.camel@johannes.local> References: <5b8543210904220608l484d0d2dv73b0d66cdc167ce@mail.gmail.com> <1240442334.14995.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <5b8543210904230336j177998c4m1e0af03fbb3584df@mail.gmail.com> <1240483530.30082.178.camel@johannes.local> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:39:57 +0200 Message-ID: <5b8543210904230439r45c982fbn66c1a2080adcd442@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090423_134006_030494_9646AD38) Subject: Re: Measure RSSI in adhoc networks From: Kai Timmer To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2009/4/23 Johannes Berg : > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 12:36 +0200, Kai Timmer wrote: > >> I need the RSSI values for distance measurements between the nodes. > > Note that is very unreliable... I know, it is a work for my diploma thesis. I'm trying to combine it with some kind of round trip time measurements. It is in the very early stages,... >> So >> what i need is not a "quality value" for the whole network, but the >> recieved mW from every reachable point in the network. So i think the >> RSSI value for every network node (if i can print them out seperatly) >> should do the job. > > iw dev wlan0 station dump That works on my laptop, but on not on my Openmoko Freerunner devices. There I get the following: runner1:~# iw dev eth1 station dump nl80211 not found. I assume that something with the freerunner wireless driver is not compatible with the linux wireless stack. The driver is called "ar6000". Greets, -- Kai Timmer Email : email@kait.de Jabber: kai@kait.de Blog: http://blog.kaitimmer.de