Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:41528 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753899AbZJ1PXx (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:23:53 -0400 Subject: Re: iwlist wlan0 scan disrupts communications From: Johannes Berg To: Charles Gordon Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <86201b3f0910280802r279bf0d8q3424245ddfb1f8a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <86201b3f0910271340t51aa6c0bgff43e6e7211a0dee@mail.gmail.com> <1256676190.4237.27.camel@johannes.local> <86201b3f0910280747q557a6153oec929e8235459c8f@mail.gmail.com> <1256741651.4237.112.camel@johannes.local> <86201b3f0910280802r279bf0d8q3424245ddfb1f8a8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-2JU9GYAKh88xb3VZpTpY" Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:23:18 +0100 Message-ID: <1256743398.4237.114.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-2JU9GYAKh88xb3VZpTpY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:02 -0400, Charles Gordon wrote: > I think that when the scan completes, mac80211 should either notify > wpa_supplicant that it should reassociate, or maybe send a null-data > frame to the AP which might cause it to send another > deauthentication/dissassociation frame (if we lost the connect). it does send nullfunc frames, you're probably running into an old bug that caused those to not be sent. johannes --=-2JU9GYAKh88xb3VZpTpY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJK6GHPAAoJEODzc/N7+QmawwgQALzYxtQTR83LY5ZGkQfYjbnm XUfC1xcI7HJhj0HOYxS95pJ/HVE9oQHKJRG8422GRoaEu84rNZZRVhS/tskTJfEM 2ErFK+JzGmhoY6s38lDbNPvgoluyhshtQq19Ynf3RExdSqgsxiUxHD1NGh9OHLze dM6/yqKbx1ntOUGUN1CqUm6qhwbuL3a1Ny1uQaQZ4dnYfQfc3aA5AwEx5lXNUpcu 91xkiFC83TuXqd09cntqNHFzAW1xn1RTaLtmbXOU76LaTcl6UzoWrwGm3PmY/cXh lQvrLu5fUzoc5f0QKFsAIPlhVmGHb/ZwdxoU2GDRddnW4OY9bm3JjUcuJpUQwV6S CovzzA2+ytDH3wH/Zepne+l6O7VBYpbEFy4b8xmR2r8zG27latmynV0DlMsMifLC 4Y8J8c1f+Se2cFEMuOOIeNoGUSR+S2ycKh7azIg72iwQMKd7iCjty26drfz7tol5 4c007XXH++iVxw390aXdjoeTtLE0MJJwndrflconfoA0WQ42RPWLt+HEWt2gt6g7 Iw2KVQTKM9+MrKQxB3F8XsTfs18nszNZccayLqqWhmPf1HwSTWcsNz5hnfZ8Xnwc ALhBxnwX4OHGW3TX+Rws9FYfUNx+0l+Yeui4Bk4qsRwm/n9q3yEdPUX+4CszJqEh qOFKzL9dP58C5noZuTAD =sDso -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2JU9GYAKh88xb3VZpTpY--