Re: Prism2

"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Mar 2003 21:48:53 -0700 (MST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.bsd.airtools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message: <BA891F8E.2EAB7%[email protected]>
            Michael DeMan <[email protected]> writes:
: Do you know if the note below I found on a mailing list applies to the noise
: field as well as the signal field?

For the cards that it works on, yes.

: Also, where did you find this?  I've hunted around via google for a while
: and can't seem to locate anything on the values for the Prism 2.

I found the formula, expressed in a more complex way, on a linux
mailing list (and several ones that were wrong).  It corresponds,
kinda, on cards with newer firmware to the values reported by those
card's dBm version.

Warner

: In message: < [email protected] >
:             Tony Saign < [email protected] > writes:
: : Using an Orinoco the values are correct, but I don't know how to correct
: :for prism2. Something like
: 
: -100 + (value * 100 / 255)