tx rate reporting for Candela firmware is working? Any changes go into the QCA released firmware?
--- Chun-Yeow On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/13/2016 08:37 AM, Iñaki Pascual wrote: >> >> Hi Ben, >> >> yes, I tried, it shows signal value but not link quality :( > > > Link 'quality' is mostly just a made-up number anyway. Signal quality > is probably the most similar value, but tx and rx bitrates give you the > best idea of how RF is performing in my opinion. Those rates are only > accurate when sending at least modest amounts of packets though. > > Thanks, > Ben > > > >> >> onet@sc229:~$ iw dev wlan2 station dump >> Station 04:f0:21:18:26:af (on wlan2) >> inactive time: 65 ms >> rx bytes: 3102896 >> rx packets: 87403 >> tx bytes: 0 >> tx packets: 0 >> tx retries: 0 >> tx failed: 0 >> signal: -63 dBm >> signal avg: -62 dBm >> tx bitrate: 6.0 MBit/s >> rx bitrate: 6.0 MBit/s >> authorized: yes >> authenticated: yes >> preamble: long >> WMM/WME: yes >> MFP: no >> TDLS peer: no >> connected time: 4476 seconds >> monet@sc229:~$ >> >> Thanks, >> >> Iñaki >> >> On 13/07/16 16:40, Ben Greear wrote: >>> >>> On 07/13/2016 07:10 AM, Iñaki Pascual wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I am trying to get link quality information from an 802.11ac interface >>>> and it looks like the only way is to use "iw wlan2 scan". I don't like this >>>> solution as >>>> it scans all channels and takes a while. >>>> >>>> If I try "cat /proc/net/wireless" (this would be my preferred option) >>>> the output is empty and I am not able to get this information with any >>>> other >>>> tool. Below >>>> is the output for some commands I tried. >>>> >>>> I am using kernel 4.2 with ath10k and Candela firmware 10.1 on a >>>> Qualcomm Atheros QCA988x >>>> >>>> Any ideas on how can I get the link quality information? >>> >>> >>> Did you try: >>> >>> iw dev wlan0 station dump >>> >>> If you want tx rate reporting, you need to run my driver patches as well >>> as my firmware, but rx-rate should be reported with stock driver >>> (and stock firmware, for that matter)... >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ben >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ath10k mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k >> > > > -- > Ben Greear <[email protected]> > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > > > _______________________________________________ > ath10k mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
