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 saw that this scanning call occurs wheter the card is down or up (namely, ifconfig eth1 up was called). Only in the first case (card is down) ,it only says: Associate: Scanning for networks first. SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up? and when card is up it says: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1 SoftMAC: Scanning 13 channels SoftMAC: Scanning finished several times. My question is : why is this scanning needed when set essid is called? and why is the repeatition? I am a little newbie in this... Regards, IB - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
