From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Charles Gordon <digigordo@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iwlist wlan0 scan disrupts communications
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:59:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091027205913.GF15566@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86201b3f0910271340t51aa6c0bgff43e6e7211a0dee@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:40:46PM -0400, Charles Gordon wrote:
> I am using version 2.6.28 of the kernel and version 0.9.11-nogit of
> iw. Communications are disrupted and the device stops responding to
> ping when I use the command "iwlist wlan0 scan". Communications are
> restored when the command completes. Is this behavior expected? Has
> it been fixed in a later release?
The device has to change frequencies to conduct the scan. Kinda like
missing part of a show while you are flipping channels... :-)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-27 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-27 20:40 iwlist wlan0 scan disrupts communications Charles Gordon
2009-10-27 20:43 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-28 14:47 ` Charles Gordon
2009-10-28 14:54 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-28 15:02 ` Charles Gordon
2009-10-28 15:23 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-28 15:48 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-27 20:59 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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