On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:17:12AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > I have taken a look into 'packet-wlancap.c' and after changing the 
> > definition of the 'ssi_signal' field from signed to unsigned (lines
> > 163+246), ethereal's dump looked as I expected it. 
> 
> I don't know either, but, given that the creator of the AVS capture
> frame format and the author of packet-wlancap.c are the same person,
> I'll CC him on this, in case he's not on ethereal-dev.

Yeah, this is definatley a bug in the dissector.

A patch to fix it is attached, it's as Mr. Arnold suggested.

Good eyes.  :)

 - Solomon
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Index: packet-wlancap.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/ethereal/packet-wlancap.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 packet-wlancap.c
--- packet-wlancap.c    6 Nov 2002 21:49:29 -0000       1.1
+++ packet-wlancap.c    5 Aug 2003 18:36:17 -0000
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
                           NULL, 0x0, "", HFILL } },
     { &hf_wlan_ssi_type, { "SSI Type", "wlancap.ssi_type", FT_UINT32, BASE_DEC,
                           VALS(ssi_type), 0x0, "", HFILL } },
-    { &hf_wlan_ssi_signal, { "SSI Signal", "wlancap.ssi_signal", FT_UINT32, 
+    { &hf_wlan_ssi_signal, { "SSI Signal", "wlancap.ssi_signal", FT_INT32, 
                             BASE_DEC, NULL, 0x0, "", HFILL } },
     { &hf_wlan_ssi_noise, { "SSI Noise", "wlancap.ssi_noise", FT_INT32, 
                            BASE_DEC, NULL, 0x0, "", HFILL } },
@@ -243,8 +243,8 @@
                          4, tvb_get_ntohl(tvb, offset));
       offset+=4;
       /* XXX cook ssi_signal (Based on type; ie format) */
-      proto_tree_add_uint(wlan_tree, hf_wlan_ssi_signal, tvb, offset,
-                         4, tvb_get_ntohl(tvb, offset));
+      proto_tree_add_int(wlan_tree, hf_wlan_ssi_signal, tvb, offset,
+                        4, tvb_get_ntohl(tvb, offset));
       offset+=4;
       /* XXX cook ssi_noise (Based on type; ie format) */
       proto_tree_add_int(wlan_tree, hf_wlan_ssi_noise, tvb, offset,

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