On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Samuel Ortiz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gustavo,
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:34:59AM -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> These days I had to review some syslog messages and found that
>> connmand seems to be scanning, and thus reporting, way too much. Seems
>> it is scanning every second or so:
>>
>> Sep 20 11:31:37 [connmand] eth1 scanning finished
>> Sep 20 11:31:38 [connmand] eth1 scanning started
>> Sep 20 11:31:43 [connmand] eth1 scanning finished
>> Sep 20 11:31:44 [connmand] eth1 scanning started
>>
>> this repeats forever... and I'm already connected to wifi on eth1
>> (broadcom-sta, "wl" driver).
> That shouldn't happen, and I'm suspecting connmand is not triggering those
> scans. Could you please check if wifi_scan() is called before those scans. ?
> If wifi_scan() is not called, the next step would be to check what
> wpa_supplicant is doing and see if it's doing passive or active scans.

well, not able to check the code now, but I disabled the only program
that would talk to connman/dbus (econnman) and it still continued, so
I guess it was wpa_supplicant as you and Marcel guessed. I'll try to
be sure later.


>> Is this supposed to happen? If so, let's at least move such
>> information to debug level? :-)
> That's right, but I wouldn't like my wifi device to be scanning every 5
> seconds or so :)
>
> BTW, do you see the same issue with non binary crap drivers ?

is there any broadcom  replacement already? I need to investigate, I
saw the news but I supposed it is just for newer hw... mine is an 3
years old macbook. will check later.

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