From: "Jaroslav Fojtik" <jafojtik@seznam.cz>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 22:00:15 +0200
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Subject: Re: How to scan APs with ATH5k?
CC: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
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Dear Bob,

> > It looks like a bug.  Even if something is preventing scanning, the
> > error code should be -EBUSY (device busy).
> > 
> > The same is true for ath9k, but I cannot test ath5k at the moment.
> > mac80211 does a considerable effort to allow scanning while associated.
> 
> It's certainly something that used to work, but I haven't tried in
> a recent kernel.  So yes probably a bug.

BTW: I do not have recent kernel. I am using:
  linux-2.6.32.11 together with compat-wireless-2.6.34-rc4 


Anyway, wlan1 returns different error when associated:

#root@dvouramenna:~# iwlist wlan1 scanning
#wlan1     Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable

regards
   J.Fojtik


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