On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 21:22 +0200, Theetjuh wrote: > Dan, > > > Should this help against the constant reconnects Simon Bøggild > reported at 25 march ?
I talked to Jouni (wpa_supplicant guy) about this, and he thought that drivers shouldn't report disconnect events when scanning. This patch won't really fix that, but I guess this means another round of driver updates, unfortunately. Ideally, all drivers would do background scanning like Madwifi and Prism54 (fullmac). Dan > I've noticed the same problem, when watching 'wpa_cli' > > On 3/30/06, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Here's a reworked patch that makes use of the netlink/wireless > event > stuff from about a month ago. It's got a few features: > > * Notices driver-provided scan completion events and pulls > from them > * Uses wpa_supplicant for scanning when a wireless connection > is active > * Works around older drivers that don't send scan completion > events > * Doesn't block waiting for scan results > > Please test it out (against HEAD) and see if it works for you. > > I've noticed one fairly large issue though... wpa_supplicant > seems to > get its link state confused and doesn't reconnect. I don't > know if this > is due to the driver not sending reconnect events or whether > wpa_supplicant is just dumb. It doesn't appear that > wpa_supplicant has > much special logic to 'fake' a connection through a scan, > which sucks > for us. More investigation is certainly needed. > > Dan > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > > > -- > > > Greetz > Theetjuh > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
