Re: Re: Welcome to the "at76c503a-user" mailing list

CE <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:33:49 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.at76c503a.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
	The driver does not report noise.  The other levels may not be right either, but I believe level goes up to 100 as I'm right by the wireless router and it's at 95 for me.  HTH, others here know more than me.


You Wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a new user of this driver and first of al let me tell that it's a a fine work you guys are
> doing. I have an Benq awl300 USB card with debian testing (or stable as of today...) and it's
> working just fine.
> But right now I'm working at a small utility (eventually a visual one) that alows me to see
> permanently the link quality. So if I "cat /proc/net/wireless" I get the following:
> 
> Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               | Missed | WE
>  face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc | beacon | 16
>  wlan0: 0000   16.   37.    0.       0      0      0      0      0        0
> 
> As you see for the quality there is link, level and noise. If anybody knows please tell me if:
> Noise is always 0, is this normal?
> What are the max values for link and level? 100?
> 
> Thank you...