wpa_cli signal level

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:40:30AM +0100, Tamas Selmeci wrote:

> Just a short question: in wpa_cli, after the SCAN command the 
> SCAN_RESULTS lists the results. I'd be interested in the "meaning" of 
> the "signal level" column. What is its range? 0-255?

It depends on the driver..

> Signal quality/level information on the same AP:
> 1) iwlist wlan0 scan: Quality=88/100  Signal level:-55 dBm
> 2) wpa_cli result: 201
> 
> My interpretation:
> 1) this is considered to be 88% (or not?);
> 2) if the range is 0-255, then this is 79%;
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? I'd like to print a scale from 0-100% 
> according to signal level of the selected AP. How to get relevant 
> results with wpa_cli?

It is next to impossible to make any sense out of WEXT values in a
general way, but you might want to take a look at how NetworkManager
does its magic since it is trying to do more or less the same.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA