Re: why differnet wlan drivers need different settings?

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

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?
>