Re: MAC-Level Statistics

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 12:12 +0000, Siva Sivavakeesar wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I have been using IPW2200 for my testbed experiments, and for this
> purpose I downloaded, compiled and installed the latest important
> modules of ieee80211 and the relevant driver module. As you know, in
> ieee80211.h, a struct termed ieee80211_stats has been defined in order
> to capture/maintain the MAC-level performance statistics. However,
> when I tried to print its elements' values, I have been getting zeros.
> Does it mean that the MAC-level statistics are not properly updated at
> all ??? Please can somebody attached to intel confirm this. If it is
> the case, then I have to use the net_device_stats struct of
> netdevice.h - is it correct ?

Which fields are you going to use? Look at ipw2200.c ipw_rx() around
line 8260, ipw2200 driver supports only some of them. But the firmware
doesn't provide noise for OFDM.

Thanks,
-yi

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