Re: How to disable STA from scanning unnecessarily

Using wpa_supplicant, you can set the scan_freq parameter.  This takes a list of frequencies to scan.  I use this with the nl80211 driver, and I imagine it should work with madwifi as well.

Aditya Bhave <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi,
>I want to disable the STA from scanning through the channel list once it 
>associates with an AP. HOw can I accomplish this? I tried setting bgscan 
>to 0, but that does not help. From the kernel logs, I still see the 
>client scanning through the list. I tried setting hostroaming to 2, but 
>the client then loses association immediately and is unable to 
>reassociate. Has anyone else faced this problem?
>
>Thanks for your help and time
>regards,
>Aditya Bhave
>
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