Wireless scanning support in orinoco driver

Jean Tourrilhes jt at bougret.hpl.hp.com
Tue Jul 9 06:06:36 EST 2002


Paul Gonin wrote :
>
> Well, I will answer to myself if this is of interest for anyone...

	I was in hollydays, sorry for the delay.

> 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.

	Correct. That's the best config to do scanning.

> P.

	Regards,

	Jean




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