Is Channel Estimation or Channel Impulse Response information accessible from Atheros HAL

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 24 23:40:13 UTC 2009


Jin YunYe wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> I am doing a research project in which I need to retrieve some
> physical layer signal parameters from the wireless adapter/wireless
> router.
> 
> Specifically, I want to get the receiver Channel Estimation
> information or Channel Impulse Response from the receiver hardware.
> Therefore, I would like to ask whether there are any API functions or
> system calls in the HAL that I can use to get these information?
> 
> Thanks a lot!

Nope.  madwifi has some stuff for doing radar detection that might be
useful; feel free to port and submit.  Otherwise the latest chips have
some very useful h/w features that Atheros won't publicly disclose and
which I am no longer permitted to see.

	Sam


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