Re: [Wireless, ath5k] 2.6.24-git13 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150

[Jiri Slaby]

On 02/04/2008 10:52 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:34 +0100, Oliver Pinter wrote:
> > On 2/4/08, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 02/04/2008 03:00 PM, Oliver Pinter (PintÃr OlivÃr) wrote:
> > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> > > > WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - bind(PF_UNIX): Address already in use
> > > 4 - 0x0 is TKIP, nothing we should worry about.
> > >
> > > > ctrl_iface exists and seems to be in use - cannot override it
> > > > Delete '/var/run/wpa_supplicant/ath0' manually if it is not used anymore
> > > > Failed to initialize control interface '/var/run/wpa_supplicant'.
> > > > You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file
> > > was
> > > > left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will
> > > need
> > > > to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again.
> > > Have you?
> > yes

Ok, on one log it can't be bound and connected to, on the others it can be 
bound. I think you have 2 wpa/NM/whatever processes there which try to assign.

> Note that the specific behavior of the process requesting scan results
> can sometimes interact badly with the driver.  The driver most likely
> needs to cope with this (by caching the BSS list internally for example)
> and handle whatever behavior userspace programs throw at it.

The driver doesn't cope with scanning at all. It doesn't support passive scans. 
It's a mac layer who scans (sends probe request for each channel and listens for 
probe response for a while) here.

The scan results as Dan mentioned will be appreciated.
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