Re: Passive Scanning not supported?

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 14:04 +0200, Thomas King wrote:
> So, here is my patch that enables the ipw2200 driver to support
> passive scanning as offered by the wireless extensions.

Thanks!

> Some notes:
> - The ipw_request_scan and ipw_request_passive_scan contain a few
>   identical lines of code. I think this should be fixed soon because
>   we all know that redundant code is a bad thing.

Yup. Can you add a new parameter (indicating active or passive scan) to
ipw_request_scan() so that we can avoid the code duplication?

> - I set the IPW_SCAN_PASSIVE_FULL_DWELL_SCAN value inside the
>   ipw_request_scan function to 320 because I collected more access
> points
>   with such a high value as with a value of 120. However, I not sure
> about
>   the side effects of such an high value.

OK. We can use 320 and see how it work for most of people.

BTW, did you try whether you can still see probe request frames when
passive scan is requested with your patch?

Thanks,
-yi

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