From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:36:14 -0600 Message-ID: <45B8CE6E.1030508@lwfinger.net> References: <1169707854.10593.41.camel@dv> <20070125135033.7d7d7baf@griffin.suse.cz> <200701250905.33129.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, Jiri Benc , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ivo Van Doorn To: Gene Heskett Return-path: Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.117]:59363 "EHLO mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030199AbXAYPj1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:39:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200701250905.33129.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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. Larry