On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Kai Timmer <email@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/4/23 Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 12:36 +0200, Kai Timmer wrote: >> >>> I need the RSSI values for distance measurements between the nodes. >> >> Note that is very unreliable... > > I know, it is a work for my diploma thesis. I'm trying to combine it > with some kind of round trip time measurements. It is in the very > early stages,... > >>> So >>> what i need is not a "quality value" for the whole network, but the >>> recieved mW from every reachable point in the network. So i think the >>> RSSI value for every network node (if i can print them out seperatly) >>> should do the job. >> >> iw dev wlan0 station dump > > That works on my laptop, but on not on my Openmoko Freerunner devices. > There I get the following: > > runner1:~# iw dev eth1 station dump > nl80211 not found. > > I assume that something with the freerunner wireless driver is not > compatible with the linux wireless stack. The driver is called > "ar6000". The ar6000 driver uses wext and not cfg80211 which all new shiny mac80211 drivers use. The command Johannes gave you was for cfg80211 devices. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
