Control: reopen -1 Control: retitle -1 manual page of airodump-ng incorrectly describes PWR value Control: found -1 1:1.0-rc2-1
Dear Carlos, thank you for your quick response. Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2012, 16:04 +0200 schrieb Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez: > On 08/08/12 15:38, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Package: aircrack-ng > > Version: 1:1.1-5 > > Severity: normal > > trying Aircrack-ng on a Debian Eee PC 701 4G with the following WLAN device > > > > 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / > > AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) > > > > and the following module > > > > $ sudo modinfo ath5k > > filename: > > /lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.ko […] > > `airodump-ng` show negative signal levels (PWR) [1]. > > The values shown are measured on dBm, which is almost always a negative > number. > > You can find on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm a table > relating dBm with power. > > > This seems to be a know problem with drivers based on the new mac80211 > > stack [2]. It is written in the Wiki that aircrack-ng v1.0-rc2 fixes > > this issue which does not seem to be the case though. > > Please read that link with attention. > > The issue was that before v1.0-rc2 airodump-ng was reporting the PWR > values in the range 150~250 because it got confused with negative numbers. > > After v1.0-rc2 airodump-ng correctly reports the values in dBm, that are > almost always negative numbers. Thank you for the clarification. I was confused because the Wiki and the manual page of airodump-ng still describe that value incorrectly then. > I am closing this bug, since there is no bug. Airodump-ng is doing the > right thing: reporting the power values on dBm. I am reopening this report and retitling it to describe the error in the manual page. Thanks, Paul
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