Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41944 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750929AbYHEV6w (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:58:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] orinoco: Add ESSID specific scanning for Agere fw From: Dan Williams To: Pavel Roskin Cc: kilroyd@googlemail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, orinoco-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, David Kilroy , Jean Tourrilhes In-Reply-To: <1217970944.2908.11.camel@dv> References: <1217672073-7094-1-git-send-email-kilroyd@gmail.com> <1217672073-7094-2-git-send-email-kilroyd@gmail.com> <1217825304.10989.20.camel@dv> <1217864060.3139.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1217970944.2908.11.camel@dv> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:55:49 -0400 Message-Id: <1217973349.30531.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (sfid-20080805_235855_026403_94C2D41A) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 17:15 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 11:34 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Maybe the wireless-tools breakage you're experiencing is causing this to > > fail on x86-64? Are you using 64-bit wireless-tools and a 64-bit > > kernel, or 32-bit wireless tools with a 64-bit kernel? > > I'm using 64-bit kernel with 64-bit userspace. > > If I use 32-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace, essid filtering works, but > only to a degree. Old scan results are cached somewhere, so if I scan > with essid and then without essid, I get filtered results. Likewise, If > I don't use filtering the first time, but use it the second time, I get > unfiltered results. Scanning for a specific SSID never has "filtered" the results, nor should it. It just probe-scans the requested SSID and return any new results in with the cached ones. You requested an SSID scan, thus you must know the SSID, thus you can do the filtering yourself? Dan