On 2011/6/19 Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Rémy Oudompheng <[email protected]> wrote: >> In src/connections/wireless, there is block that calls "iwconfig mode >> Managed" before starting wpa_supplicant. The log is not really >> explicit about why this was added (it merely says it was necessary for >> iwl3945), and wpa_supplicant man page only says it's necessary for the >> hostap driver, which we do not use. Does anybody knows the reason why >> it is needed? > > I think some drivers don't (didn't?) support switching modes if the > interface is up, or something like that?
So more precisely, the question is probably: is wpa_supplicant capable of manipulating interfaces that are down, just like iwconfig? Rémy.
