Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: increase scan timeout

[Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>]

Am Dienstag, 25. November 2008 schrieb Dan Williams:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 18:09 +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> > I have no idea in which situations the scan takes longer than 5 seconds to
> > complete but maybe it might even take longer than 10 seconds. Has anybody from
> > Intel insight into the firmware scan code?
> 
> Probably because with 802.11a, you have so many more channels to scan.
> Depending on whether they are active or passive, you may be able to do
> probe-scans on them, or you may have to sit on each channel for 120ms to
> listen for beacons.  It's not unusual for cards that support A channels
> to take two or three times as long for a scan as cards that support only
> b/g, depending on the channel list.

Sure, but the strange thing is that not every scan took longer than 5 seconds.
I did not run much measurements but some scans even finished in less than 3
seconds.

Helmut