Hi Stefan, Stefan Parvu wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I was scanning with my laptop different > wifi nets. I have noticed that wificonfig does > remember the latest 10 access points. The man > page confirmed me that, > > I have tried something like: > > $ wificonfig -i iwk0 scan > and I was expecting to see the current ones. Im > not interested to see what was > 20minutes ago from another place. > > I have couple of questions about wificonfig: > > 1. Whats the logic behind wificonfig history ? > I bet an user would like to see what are the current > access points ... By default it should report > the current ones not a history of them. If somebody > really wants to see what was 2hrs ago then the history > option could be used... > > 2. Say Im interested to track down the number > of AP and their signal rate. I would like to > put continously wificonfig to scan. I can easily > write a script to do that but how can I get only > the current AP it gets ... !? Is there an option > to disable the history except using using sed, head !? > It's NOT the problem of wificonfig, even you change to use dladm, same result. It's a bug of iwk driver, it remembered all APs ever found; if you try other drivers, such as ath, you will have no such problem.
-- Quaker > thanks, > Stefan > > > System: > IBM Thinkpad X61s > OS: > Solaris Express Community Edition snv_87 X86 > Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > Use is subject to license terms. > Assembled 07 April 2008 > > > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
