[orbit-user] Measuring RSSI per received packet, using Atheros?

[Kishore Ramachandran]

Hi Rodney:

I believe madwifi also supports this feature - if you put the card in
monitor mode and use tcpdump, RSSI is available on the received packet as
part of the prism header.

regards,
Kishore

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Rodney Berriman <
rodney.berriman at nicta.com.au> wrote:

>  The Intel Pro Wireless devices, via the ipw2200 driver, are able to report
> RSSI per incoming packet, and thereby determine the signal strength from
> each neighbour individually.
>
> Does anyone know if the Atheros based devices are able to support this
> feature, either via the madwifi driver, or another driver?
>
> many thanks,
>
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