On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 16:40 -0400, Charles Gordon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using version 2.6.28 of the kernel and version 0.9.11-nogit of >> iw. Communications are disrupted and the device stops responding to >> ping when I use the command "iwlist wlan0 scan". Communications are >> restored when the command completes. Is this behavior expected? Has >> it been fixed in a later release? > > Yes and yes, but I don't remember whether it's better in 2.6.31 or only > will be in 32. > > johannes > Thanks for the information. After doing some more testing I found that the association to the AP is sometimes lost and that mac80211 does not recover automatically. You have to type the command "wpa_cli reassociate" to trigger the stack to reassociate with the AP. Is this one of the things that is, or will be, fixed in later releases? -- 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
