Re: Where to put options (e.g. iwpriv)

[Bill Moseley <moseley hank org>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 12:46:08PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 09:00 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > For interfaces that NM is managing where can I add options to run
> > after bringing up the interface?
> > 
> >     iwpriv ath0 bgscan 0
> 
> NM won't ever use iwpriv options, precisely because they are nonstandard
> and differ between every driver.  That way lies madness (and is also why
> NM only uses the wext wpa_supplicant driver too)...  I assume that
> background scanning is causing problems for you?

It's reported to fix the problem of:


wifi0: rx FIFO overrun; resetting


http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587366

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Bill Moseley
moseley hank org