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Topic: Problem with airodump-ng and PWR column

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Hello.

I have a wrt54gl with Kamikaze 7.09 and I have this problem:

After executing 'wl monitor 1', I launch "airodump-ng prism0" and I get all the info about devices around me. The problem is that the PWR column just shows two values: 0 and -1... and I really need this parameter for location purposes!

I thought the problem was some syscall, but if I execute "iwlist wl0 scan" I get correct signal powers for the APs around me, so I doubt that's the problem.

May be related: iwlist scan doesn't work with prism0:
root@OpenWrt:~# wl monitor 1
root@OpenWrt:~# iwlist prism0 scan
prism0    Interface doesn't support scanning.

Any ideas?

Thank you very much.

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