Ian Brown wrote:
> My question is : why is this scanning needed when set essid is called?
> and why is the repeatition?
ESSID doesn't tell you the channel nummber, so you have to scan
for a beacon containing the ESSID in passive scanning. Even if you
do active scanning you need to check all chann
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 16:38 +0300, Ian Brown wrote:
> Hello,
> I see that setting the essid of a wireless card
> (by iwconfig eth1 essid homenet)
> triggers scanning;
> My question is : why is this scanning needed when set essid is called?
> and why is the repeatition?
Because the wireless card ne
Hello,
I see that setting the essid of a wireless card
(by iwconfig eth1 essid homenet)
triggers scanning;
namely , it calls ieee80211softmac_assoc_work() method which in
turn calls ieee80211softmac_start_scan().
I use zd1211 driver which works with the softmac layer
of the last git kernel.
I sa
