From: "Jaroslav Fojtik" <jafojtik@seznam.cz>
To: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 13:21:15 +0200
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Subject: Re: How to scan APs with ATH5k? - compat-wireless-2010-05-21
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Dear Bob,

it looks that compat-wireless-2010-05-21 scans when associated.
  But compat-wireless-2010-05-21 seems to be so defective that I cannot 
use it.

regards
   Jara

> > > 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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