I have observed that 'iwlist wlan0 scan' sometimes fails to produce a scan and manual configuration with iwconfig sometimes fails to produce an association. I also observed that the Fedora 8 configuration script issues the command 'ip link set wlan0 up' before configuring the wlan0 and it always works. I also noted in the Intel documentation that the command 'ifconfig wlan0 up' should be issued before configuing the wlan0. For manual configuration, I now use ifconfig wlan0 up ip link set wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed iwconfig wlan0 key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx iwconfig wlan0 essid mosswap dhclient wlan0 It always works. I believe the iwl3945 driver is broken when there are hidden AP's in the scan list. It appears that the scan list returned to wpa_supplicant is corrupted which is why the wpa_supplicant setting ap_scan=2 does not for hidden AP's. With hardware scanning enabled as a module option, it appears that iwl3945 does both a background scan and a scan by ssid when the ssid is set unlike ipw2200 which does background scans constantly and only does scan by ssid when it is requested. Bill Moss - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
