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To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] orinoco: Add ESSID specific scanning for Agere fw
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From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:34:20AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 00:48 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 11:14 +0100, kilroyd@googlemail.com wrote:
> > > Pass the ESSID to the card.
> > > 
> > > This allows 'iwlist eth1 scan essid <essid>' to work, and will help
> > > with routers setup not to broadcast the ESSID.
> > 
> > That's a nice thing to have, but it doesn't seem to work on x86_64 (I
> > didn't try other platforms).  I tried wireless-tools 30.pre6 instead of
> > 29, but it broke the output completely:
> > 
> > # iwlist eth1 scan 
> > *** Please report to jt@hpl.hp.com your platform details
> > *** and the following line :
> > *** IW_EV_LCP_PK2_LEN = 4 ; IW_EV_POINT_PK2_LEN = 8
> > 
> > eth1      Scan completed :
> >           Cell 01 - Address: 00:19:5B:56:FC:73
> >                     ESSID:off/any/hidden
> >                     Mode:Master
> >                     Frequency=2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
> >                     Signal level:-29 dBm  Noise level:-81 dBm
> >                     Encryption key:E0
> >                     Extra:
> >           Cell 02 - Address: 00:15:6D:53:9A:CA
> >                     ESSID:off/any/hidden
> >                     Mode:Master
> >                     Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
> >                     Signal level:-49 dBm  Noise level:-80 dBm
> >                     Encryption key:E0
> >                     Extra:
> > 
> > 
> > > +			if (priv->scan_mode & IW_SCAN_THIS_ESSID) {
> > 
> > The debug output shows that the about condition is never true with
> > either version of iwlist.  The command is:
> > 
> > iwlist eth1 scan essid foo
> 
> That code looks right, since srq->flags is getting copied into
> priv->scan_mode.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Dan

	I still need to look into those 64 bit issues. That's the
reason why WT-30 is still pending. The good news is that I now have a
64 bit box. The bad news is work and family.
	Have fun...

	Jean