From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: why differnet wlan drivers need different settings? Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:03:34 +0200 Message-ID: <200810251303.35295.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <200810251153.25533.bug-track@fisher-privat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200810251153.25533.bug-track-M18mAb7Tlt0yCq4wW13eYl6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Alexey Fisher Cc: Kernel Testers List , linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Saturday, 25 of October 2008, Alexey Fisher wrote: > May be this is the wrong plase to ask. Yeah, better ask that on linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org (CCed). > The question is: Why differnet wlan drivers use different settings to stay > silent - powered on but not trying to associate to any accespoint? > For example: ipw2200 - if wlan was connfigured like: > > iwconfig wlan1 essid "my-ap" chan 6 ap my:aps:mac ?key s:pass > > this will normaly connect to my secure ?AP. and if i set after this: > ? > iwconfig wlan1 essid off ap off > > it will connect to unsecure AP of my neighbour or of Dr.Evil :) > to disable association on ipw2200 i need to set all this and plus "chan 0". > With this cnowleg i want to set up iwl3945, and surprise it's not working. > This driver do not accepted "chan 0" and instead of "essid off" it did > "essid """ > > Are there any unified way to keep adapter powered on but not trying to > associate to some AP? > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:50140 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751153AbYJYK6r (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:58:47 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Alexey Fisher Subject: Re: why differnet wlan drivers need different settings? Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:03:34 +0200 Cc: Kernel Testers List , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <200810251153.25533.bug-track@fisher-privat.net> In-Reply-To: <200810251153.25533.bug-track@fisher-privat.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200810251303.35295.rjw@sisk.pl> (sfid-20081025_125851_941986_A35600E6) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Saturday, 25 of October 2008, Alexey Fisher wrote: > May be this is the wrong plase to ask. Yeah, better ask that on linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org (CCed). > The question is: Why differnet wlan drivers use different settings to stay > silent - powered on but not trying to associate to any accespoint? > For example: ipw2200 - if wlan was connfigured like: > > iwconfig wlan1 essid "my-ap" chan 6 ap my:aps:mac ?key s:pass > > this will normaly connect to my secure ?AP. and if i set after this: > ? > iwconfig wlan1 essid off ap off > > it will connect to unsecure AP of my neighbour or of Dr.Evil :) > to disable association on ipw2200 i need to set all this and plus "chan 0". > With this cnowleg i want to set up iwl3945, and surprise it's not working. > This driver do not accepted "chan 0" and instead of "essid off" it did > "essid """ > > Are there any unified way to keep adapter powered on but not trying to > associate to some AP? >