[kismac] Re: Signal strength (small bug report, big PS)

About the bug, yeah I can reproduce that, and I already submitted a
bug report a few days ago, but on the old system. Don't know if they
were taken to the new system.
As for the signal strength idea, I like that a lot.
Are there any signal bursts, where it spikes up to an insane amount
sometimes, maybe internally? I don't really know, but signals are
weird like that. So maybe an averaging part with that so any bursts
that are insanely high are not taken into account.


On 2/28/06, Robin L Darroch <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Another possible bug: while gathering data to compare my DWL-122 with
> my Airport Extreme (active and passive modes), I actually hit a bug
> which needed a reboot to fix... but I *think* it may be reproducible:
>
> - install one passive driver (e.g. DWL-122)
> - tell it to scan only one channel
> - quit and relaunch
> - click "scan"
>
> I'm pretty sure, with my DWL-122, that killed it.  As far as I can
> tell, if you start scanning the first time with more than one
> channel, then subsequently scan with only one channel, it's fine...
> but if the first scan since starting KisMAC is a single-channel scan
> (at least with a USB Prism2) then it hangs.
>
> Can anyone else reproduce this?
>
>
> P.S.  I think the algorithm in my other message needs a little more
> work - the Airport Extreme passive mode never seems to report
> anything less than about 60, which doesn't make sense... so I think
> we may need to scale both the upper and lower limits.  The problem
> then is where to initialise the values so that the algorithm will
> work before gathering data and after.  Also, it occurs to me that the
> minimum must be 1, not 0, since 0 is reserved for "no longer picking
> up this network".
>
> Perhaps:
>
> max_sig = null
> min_sig = null
>
> (if already saved, load the above values from the driver prefs)
>
> [on signal received: raw strength = r (must be > 0)]
>
> if (! max_sig) {
>         max_sig = r;
>         s = 100;
> } else if (! min_sig) {
>         if (r > max_sig) {
>                 min_sig = max_sig;
>                 max_sig = r;
>                 s = 100;
>         } else if (r < max_sig) {
>                 min_sig = r;
>                 s = 1;
>         } else {
>                 s = 100;
> } else {
>         if (r > max_sig) {
>                 max_sig = r;
>                 s = 100;
>                 rescale_previous();
>         } else if (r < min_sig) {
>                 min_sig = r;
>                 s = 1;
>                 rescale_previous();
>         } else {
>                 // raw value is in existing min-max range
>                 s = 1 + 99*(r - min_sig)/(max_sig - min_sig)
>         }
> }
>
>
> I think the above pseudo-code should more or less work, and
> automatically give scaled readouts between 1 and 100 for any adapter
> in any mode... anyone feel like having a go at implementing it?
> Naturally the max_sig and min_sig values would need to be saved to
> the driver prefs record at the end of each scan, and the *raw*
> strengths for the current network list would need to be kept for the
> rescale_previous function to work.  Not quite sure how we'd handle
> loaded files yet.
> --
>
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>
>
>

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