Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 02:14 -0500, Rev. Justin Brown wrote:
>>>         It's mostly driver related issues that the SCAN_CAP NM patch
>>>         fix in
>>>         concert with the kernel patch.  Having only the NM side of
>>>         that will
>>>         still make NM use AP_SCAN=2, leading to probably failures in
>>>         many
>>>         mac80211 drivers.
>>>         
>>>         Dan 
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I can't find any info on how to
>>> fix this. Could you point me in the right direction? Do I need to
>>> patch my kernel or switch drivers?
>> Best is to get your distro to include the scan capability patch, which
>> is already in 2.6.25 and is a quite trivial backport.  You can tell if
>> your card has the scan capability bits or not because NM will print out
>> a message to that effect when it starts up.
> 
>> Dan
> 
> Is this the message in question:
> 
> Apr 4 13:40:09 g NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver supports SSID
> scans (scan_capa 0x01).
> 
> If so, this bug report on a somewhat unrelated matter:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/211780
> 
> ...which would indicate this has been in Hardy since 2.6.24-12 at least.
> 
> If that is true (I have not tried my own), that is a problem as it still
> does not appear to work and I run -15.
> 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/186296

indicates there was a time where the patch was included - has to be proved 
again?!


Nikolaus
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