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
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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: >=20 > > Hm. Yeah, seems like? This is really old :-) >=20 > 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/ >=20 > 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