Ian Brown wrote: > My question is : why is this scanning needed when set essid is called? > and why is the repeatition?
ESSID doesn't tell you the channel nummber, so you have to scan for a beacon containing the ESSID in passive scanning. Even if you do active scanning you need to check all channels because your ESSID could be on anyone of the channels. Uli -- Uli Kunitz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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
