Re: Copy-and-paste error on the page for the "antenna noise" field?

Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:30:04 +0100
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2023-01-12 at 00:15 -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2023, at 11:46 PM, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> w=
rote:
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> > Hm. Yeah, seems like? This is really old :-)
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> Yeah, I only noticed it when looking at, and copying and pasting text
> from, the ""antenna noise" page, to provide a comment on

Right.

> 	https://ask.wireshark.org/question/30268/how-to-get-noise-level-in-80211=
-headers-in-wireshark/
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> I infer, from the Wireshark dissection of the radiotap header, that
> their adapter, or the driver for it, provides only "antenna signal"
> information and no "antenna noise" information.

I don't know what adapter they're using to capture, but it _looks_ like
mac80211 (with the per-antenna signal encoded that way), and then quite
possibly Intel (WFA uses it), and then yes - we don't provide noise
information in the Intel NICs.

johannes