HostAP station signal strengths

[Jim TerWee]

Jason Carr said:
> Also, I'm assuming that signal means signal and silence means noise.
> (that's quite an opposite word)
>
> My S/N for that specific station would be as follows:
>
> 20 log(10) * (201 / 170) = 23.6470588
>
> Is this correct?
>
> - Jason
>
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:35:20PM -0500, Jason Carr wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I want to look at building a web interface for viewing statuses of
>> my HostAP, and looked at the specific station MAC addresses listed
>> in /proc/net/hostap/wlan0/.  Is there documentation as to what most
>> of this means?  Some are obvious, such as:
>>
>> supported_rates=1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>>
>> But some are less than obvious, such as these:
>>
>> aid=1
>> flags=0x0003 AUTH ASSOC
>> capability=0x11
>> jiffies=158012061
>> last_rx: silence=170 signal=201 rate=10
>>
>> I'm really interisted in all of the data, to work it into the web
>> interface.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Jason

Somebody has already built a web page to do what you are looking at doing.
You might want to look at his
http://www.mobilnews.cz/honza/en_prog_linux_wewimo.php
Jim