On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:16:04PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > fixed it. Active scanning has been out of vogue as the default scan > method for like 2 years with wireless-tools/WE, I'm not sure why softmac > thinks it should be different here. Active scanning takes more power > anyway, since you have to power up the card to transmit the probe > requests. That's why wireless-tools and Wireless Extensions switched to > passive scanning.
Can you please point to some documentation/email thread/etc. describing this preference to use passive scanning? I was not aware of such a preference and have assumed that active scanning would be the preferred default because it is quite a bit faster and provides more complete results. > I'd have issues with softmac doing active scanning unless _specifically_ > requested to do so, by using the SIOCGIWMLME with a iw_scan_req > structure requesting IW_SCAN_TYPE_ACTIVE. But _only_ then... Normal > SIOCGIWSCAN shouldn't do active scanning. SIOCGIWSCAN does not request scanning, SIOCSIWSCAN does.. I don't understand what SIOCGIWMLME would have to do with this. SIOCSIWSCAN can use an optional iw_scan_req to control scan request. If this data is not present, I would assume that the drivers would do whatever they want and in many cases I would expect this to be active scan. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
