Status (802.11b/g DSSS/CCK/PBCC)

The status line provides summary messages indicating the status of demodulation of the PPDU including the PLCP Preamble status, the PLCP Header status and the PSDU MAC status. The Status message string format is as follows:

Status = [the PLCP Preamble status, the PLCP Header status, the PSDU data status]

API Programming Information

When queried programmatically, the Status entry in the Syms/Errs summary table is separated into two data results: the HdrStat (PLCP Header status) and MacStat (PSDU MAC status) status information. This table provides the HdrStat and MacStat values and meaning:

HdrStat Value

Description

0

No SFD found

1

Invalid header bits

2

Header CRC failed

3

Invalid header phase shift

4

Invalid Barker1/short

5

Unknown - the result length was not long enough to capture all of the header data, so the status cannot be determined.

6

Header OK

MacStat Value

Description

0

Unknown - the result length was not long enough to capture all of the data, so the MAC status cannot be determined.

1

MAC FCS failed

2

MAC FCS OK

See Also

Available Error Summary Data (802.11b/g DSSS/CCK/PBCC)