From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 14 00:09:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272CFD61; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:09:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ericturgeon.bsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-x233.google.com (mail-pb0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFF4B2E66; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f51.google.com with SMTP id jt11so6656176pbb.10 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:09:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Q0iYm8mpCPdmWR3KYppv4MVPdSe0oxrYJ1yHdMfE5uM=; b=MDtuK2yUN1K2NfyYDKkd5xbGIodr0/Qk8HKrPtCxCI3pM9iOTIceROpzS3RHKYpt71 W/S6j6H/866jXDswTEa4n+mUPcOU2dVVs/NO52NXxj4hA+x4c1bSbsqwx+hUQIE7aHVG X8UgF83GOfLDA0PUL+NBbMCDziSMuhLcTQ0I0cX8jJJJd02zhKrEdqer4nzxZYbelqzP 2hZFJn6miEd9oTM/xD/0riVsDgGnMlRdm6QAjW9QqKpzyIxYMfwjlGttYonJDJTVCOSI 5FFmjR1mmtv1o9mHz7ckr5uYHEzGYFKR3NFvAN32T1DlunHLLlR50LI0iCS0LG/DOAO3 5XsQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.163.164 with SMTP id yj4mr35117845pab.91.1381709379571; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:09:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.200.136 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:09:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <525B2802.5050904@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 21:09:39 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Wireless API From: Eric Turgeon To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:09:40 -0000 Were is the documentation for that API. On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > What do you mean like "connection percentage" ? > > Do you mean like signal strength? If so, then yes. > > You can then make some basic heuristic guesses mapping signal level / RSSI > to a connection percentage based on some assumptions. For example, you > could look at the minimum RSSI required to guarantee some decent stability > at each receive/transmit rate (from 1mbit->54mbit, then MCS1->MCS23) and > then use that to map out connection percentage (where stable at MCS0 / > 1mbit would be lowest, and stable at MCS7/54mbit would be 100%.) > > HTH, > > > > -adrian > > > > On 13 October 2013 16:08, Eric Tugeon wrote: > >> Hi, >> I work on a Python GTK network manager for FreeBSD/GhostBSD, it will look >> similar to https://projects.gnome.org/**NetworkManager/. >> I want to know if we have wireless API like connection percentage? >> ______________________________**_________________ >> freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**wireless >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@** >> freebsd.org " >> > > -- *Eric Turgeon **GhostBSD project* Office location: 1-11 connaught Moncton NB Canada www.ghostbsd.org