From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Williams Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:26:16 -0500 Message-ID: <1169742376.14349.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1169707854.10593.41.camel@dv> <20070125135033.7d7d7baf@griffin.suse.cz> <200701250905.33129.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <45B8CE6E.1030508@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gene Heskett , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, Jiri Benc , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ivo Van Doorn To: Larry Finger Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:40372 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030308AbXAYQ2z (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:28:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45B8CE6E.1030508@lwfinger.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 09:36 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 25 January 2007 07:50, Jiri Benc wrote: > >> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:47:08 +0100, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: > >>> Correct, similar problems have been detected in rt2x00. The temporary > >>> solution in there is to demand a scanning operation after the > >>> interface has been brought up. > >> Scanning? No no no, please! That would be a clear bug and misbehaviour. > >> > >> Jiri > > > > Oh? I'm sitting here watching the tty0 screen of my lappy after x has > > been started, and I have established a connection, but SoftMAC is still > > logging its scan activity, starting with channel 1 and scanning 14 > > channels. Its doing this at approximately 2 minute intervals. So I > > think we have your definition of a clear bug and misbehaviour. > > > > Are you running NetworkManager? If so, that is the source of the scanning. Right; and NM scans at 2m intervals by default, unless you've clicked the menu (or a few other instances) where it will jump up to 20s and then back off to 2m again. dan > Larry > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html