WINLAB IPW2200

​IPW2200 is a Linux kernel driver for Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Adaptors. The Wiki pages create here are used to store extensive knowledge about IPW2200 driver and new feature developments for WINLAB developers.The ​official IPW2200 website has very limited useful information for new developments. This is a good starting point to learn, share and practise new implementations which could enhance MAC, PHY/Radio and other cross-layer wireless research projects of WINLAB.

Currently Supported Per Packet Statistics by the IPW2200 Driver

The following are the per packet statistics supported by intel IPW2200 driver.

• Transmit Power : The send side transmit power is appended as a send side parameter by the IPW2200 driver and is obtained by libmac as a send side parameter on the received frames.
• RSSI : RSSI is provided on a per packet basis by the IPW2200 driver. Libmac provides an interface to this parameter on a per packet basis as an appended parameter to each of the frames on the receive side.
• Noise : Noise value as provided by the hardware is reported by the driver on a per packet basis.
• Current Transmit Rate : The current transmit rate is provided as a receive side appended parameter on a per packet basis.
• Timestamp : A 64 bit timestamp value for the received frames is provided on a per packet basis by the IPW2200 driver.