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On Nov 24, 2007 4:36 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yeah, I've been bitten by that too. It's pretty tough actually but
> *should* be doable though I would much prefer to set it only after the
> interface is up I can see... Thing is that before the iface is up the
> interface mode isn't set in stone. So things like
>
> iwconfig eth1 blabla
> iwconfig eth1 mode monitor
> iwconfig eth1 mode managed
> ip link set eth1 up
>
> can probably never work properly. In any case, we ought to fix this
> though right now I don't know what the best way would be.

Ugh, yeah.

Would "bringing up a STA interface always triggers a scan" be too
horrible of a kludge to contemplate?

-- 
Will Dyson
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