Package: wavemon Version: 0.4.0b-9 Severity: normal wavemon does not handle dBm values in /proc/net/wireless as displayed when IW_QUAL_DBM is set by the driver.
/proc/net/wireless when IW_QUAL_DBM is not set: --8<--- Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 20 ath0: 0004 73. 238. 165. 1646 0 0 0 0 0 --8<--- wavemon handles this and subtracts 0x100 to get the dBm values. /proc/net/wireless when IW_QUAL_DBM is set: --8<--- Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 20 ath0: 0004 75. -21. -96. 692 0 0 0 0 0 --8<--- wavemon does not handle this and still subtracts 0x100 leading to wrong values like "signal level: -277 dBm" and "noise level: -352 dBm" in this case. elmar -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages wavemon depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand wavemon recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- .'"`. /"\ | :' : Elmar Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / `. `' GPG key available via pgp.net against HTML email X `- & vCards / \
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