Wireless scanning support in orinoco driver

[Moustafa A. Youssef]

Hi,
    Based on my experience:
    - Scanning mode is designed to work in infra-structure mode 
(managed) as responding to a probe request is a function implemented by 
access points
(and not stations).    
    - Currently, the scanning works on the essid you're using. This is 
not required in general. For example, you can be connected
to a network with essid ABC and scanning a network with essid XYZ. Using 
'any' as essid enables you to view all networks.
    - You are able to scan networks for which you have the enc. key (a 
strange restriction as scanning should work without assoicating with the 
AP but this seems
like a restriction from the firmware). If you turn enc. off, you are 
able to scan for all open networks. If you want to scan for enc. 
networks, you need to have their
keys.

Best,
    Moustafa

>Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 08:07:03 -0500
>From: Paul Gonin <paul-ml at gonin.net>
>To: wireless at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: Wireless scanning support in orinoco driver
>
>Well, I will answer to myself if this is of interest for anyone...
>
>Based on my experience (i.e. I don't have solid prooves for that), 
>scanning with the wireless tools should be performed with the following 
>setup :
>mode: Managed
>essid: any
>encryption: off
>
>Otherwise you might not be able to discover some networks.
>
>P.
>
>Paul Gonin wrote:
>
>>Hi !
>>
>>By the way, is there a recommended setup for scanning (encryption 
>>off...), or should it work the same in any configuration ?
>>
>>Thank you
>>Paul
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