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Today's Topics:
1. When BackgroundScanning = false, connman's Scan() dbus method
is broken (Jonah Petri)
2. Re: When BackgroundScanning = false, connman's Scan() dbus
method is broken (Sam Nazarko)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 11:10:07 -0400
From: Jonah Petri <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: When BackgroundScanning = false, connman's Scan() dbus method
is broken
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hello,
I want to report an issue with connman. We set BackgroundScanning = false in
main.conf. However, I have found that this also causes connman to give an
erroneous empty response to the Scan() dbus call, potentially permanently
disabling the device.
The key preconditions seem to be:
1) wpa_supplicant reports a max_ssids > 1
2) the computer must have been previously associated to a SSID which is no
longer visible
3) as above, BackgroundScanning must be set to false
This causes the logic of wifi.c:wifi_scan() to fail. In particular:
1) wifi_scan_simple is not used, due to the above preconditions.
2) connman requests an active scan via wpa_supplicant for the ssids returned by
get_latest_connections.
3) connman does not request a followup passive scan, as BackgroundScanning is
turned off, which causes start_autoscan() to exit early.
This means that in the scenario above, connman will never see any wifi
networks. Scan() will always return an empty list, even if other SSIDs are
available. This is potentially fatal for embedded systems, so in my view this
is a very serious issue.
This issue affects at least connman 1.33 and 1.34. I cannot test older
versions due to other dependencies.
One workaround is to enable BackgroundScanning.
Best,
Jonah
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 15:22:05 +0000
From: Sam Nazarko <[email protected]>
To: Jonah Petri <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: When BackgroundScanning = false, connman's Scan() dbus
method is broken
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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From: connman <[email protected]> on behalf of Jonah Petri
<[email protected]>
Sent: 08 August 2017 16:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: When BackgroundScanning = false, connman's Scan() dbus method is broken
I want to report an issue with connman. We set BackgroundScanning = false in
main.conf. However, I have found that this also causes connman to give an
erroneous empty response to the Scan() dbus call, potentially permanently
disabling the device.
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Hello,
I can reproduce this issue. We wanted to disable BackgroundScanning as we
support
a few wireless drivers that experience disruption to the connection when
scanning
occurs. After disabling BackgroundScanning in ConnMan 1.34, we had numerous
reports of users unable to find any WiFi networks.
Sam
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