Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 00:12 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> Quoting Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>> In ieee80211, the output of scan results lists channels rather than
>>> frequencies; however, NetworkManager needs frequency. This patch
>>> changes the output from channel to frequency.
>> The driver can report both, and I think it should.  This would make the 
>> iwlist
>> output a bit longer, but kernel drivers shouldn't be written to make 
>> userspace
>> program generate pretty output.
> 
> I'm trying to remember why NM cares about frequency, and I think it's
> for ad-hoc mode; but wpa_supplicant didn't historically support a
> "channel" configuration parameter and so you can't create adhoc networks
> with NM right now anyway...  What's the failure mode?

In the KDE NM applet, the frequency is listed as 0.

Larry
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