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grrtrr
commented on September 3, 2024
Hi, thank you for the detailed notes. This very much seems to be a kernel issue:
- with nl80211 (
iwand master branch) the values (-45 dBm) seem to be correct, - the link quality is a proxy figure, yet 100% is rare and suspicious
- the wext values (20 dBm and 100 out of 100) are suspicious.
You said that iw values look correct. Could you double check to see what iwconfig reports (this is the older, wext-based interface)? Very likely it will report the same values.
If that is the case, it is a problem of how wext is supported in the driver. It seems nl80211 works with this driver, but the legacy wext interface does not -- almost the opposite of the rt3573sta driver issue reported in #13 (the driver supports wext, but not nl80211).
If it turns out to be a kernel issue, it should be passed on to the kernel module developers, or the Linux wireless mailing list.
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bmegli
commented on September 3, 2024
Hi, thank you for the detailed notes
Thanks for the great utility.
@bmegli wrote
In both versions values change in reasonable way (that is - as I am getting far away from the AP the link quality and signal level drops)
@grrtrr replied
You said that iw values look correct.
Oh, I meant that both the new and old version values behave reasonble even though they differ. Both drop values as the distance raises. It's difficult for me to tell which one is correct with respect to absolute value (for the signal level)
Could you double check to see what iwconfig reports (this is the older, wext-based interface)? Very likely it will report the same values.
I will check iwconfig tommorow (the hardware is in a different location).
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bmegli
commented on September 3, 2024
Could you double check to see what iwconfig reports (this is the older, wext-based interface)? Very likely it will report the same values.
Here you are.
Yes, they seem to match. The output for the signal level is somewhat different.
wavemon 0.7.6-2
lqInterfaceqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
xwlan0 (IEEE 802.11bgn, WPA/WPA2), ESSID: "ROBOT", nick: "<WIFI@REALTEK>" x
tqLevelsqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqu
x x
xlink quality: 100% (100/100) x
x======================================================================================x
x x
xsignal level: 20 dBm (100.00 mW) x
x======================================================================================x
x x
x x
tqStatisticsqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqu
xRX: 22,211 (10.91 MiB), invalid: 0 nwid, 0 crypt, 0 frag, 0 misc x
xTX: 24,134 (4.36 MiB), mac retries: 0, missed beacons: 0 x
tqInfoqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqu
xmode: Managed, access point: E4:F4:C6:41:F7:44, sensitivity: 0/0 x
xfreq: 2.437 GHz, channel: 6, bitrate: 150 Mbit/s x
xpower mgt: off x
xretry: off, RTS/cts: off, Frag: off x
xencryption: no information available x
tqNetworkqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqu
xmac: 80:1F:02:E6:93:32, ip: 192.168.0.101/24 x
mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj
F1info F2lhist F3scan F4 F5 F6 F7prefs F8help F9about F10quitiwconfig
root@ev3dev:~/wavemon# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"ROBOT" Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: E4:F4:C6:41:F7:44
Bit Rate:150 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:****-****-****-****-****-****-****-**** Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=100/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
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grrtrr
commented on September 3, 2024
Thank you for checking this. It confirms that there is a problem with Wext, possibly the wext support in the wireless driver (otherwise the problem would be seen with other drivers, too). If it is possible for you, the best thing to do is to alert the driver maintainers to this problem.
Thank you also for the helpful other issues, I will look at them after work.
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bmegli
commented on September 3, 2024
Ok,
I am going to inform the driver maintainer when I find time.
I suppose nothing to be done here on the wavemon side then. Also thanks for sorting that out.
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