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

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 17:31 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> 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

Neat; still a driver or ucode bug though...  private ioctls are quite
evil if they are required for day-to-day operation, but madwifi never
quite seems to get that...

Dan