On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:03:34PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, 25 of October 2008, Alexey Fisher wrote: > > May be this is the wrong plase to ask. > > Yeah, better ask that on linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (CCed). > > > The question is: Why differnet wlan drivers use different settings to stay > > silent - powered on but not trying to associate to any accespoint? > > For example: ipw2200 - if wlan was connfigured like: > > > > iwconfig wlan1 essid "my-ap" chan 6 ap my:aps:mac ?key s:pass > > > > this will normaly connect to my secure ?AP. and if i set after this: > > ? > > iwconfig wlan1 essid off ap off > > > > it will connect to unsecure AP of my neighbour or of Dr.Evil :) > > to disable association on ipw2200 i need to set all this and plus "chan 0". > > With this cnowleg i want to set up iwl3945, and surprise it's not working. > > This driver do not accepted "chan 0" and instead of "essid off" it did > > "essid """ > > > > Are there any unified way to keep adapter powered on but not trying to > > associate to some AP? That is from the bad-ole-days. I could be wrong, but AFAIK only the ipw2x00 drivers do that anyway. I recently merged a patch to change the default for that for ipw2200 into wireless-testing. We should probably have one for ipw2100 as well. Anyway, there are module options for those. Add "options ipw2200 associate=0" to /etc/modprobe.conf. Hth! John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx of your literate lifestyle. -- 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
