Am Dienstag, 25. November 2008 schrieb Dan Williams: > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 18:09 +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: > > I have no idea in which situations the scan takes longer than 5 seconds to > > complete but maybe it might even take longer than 10 seconds. Has anybody from > > Intel insight into the firmware scan code? > > Probably because with 802.11a, you have so many more channels to scan. > Depending on whether they are active or passive, you may be able to do > probe-scans on them, or you may have to sit on each channel for 120ms to > listen for beacons. It's not unusual for cards that support A channels > to take two or three times as long for a scan as cards that support only > b/g, depending on the channel list. Sure, but the strange thing is that not every scan took longer than 5 seconds. I did not run much measurements but some scans even finished in less than 3 seconds. Helmut -- 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
