Re: Wireless requires roaming to be turned off and back on before connecting

From: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry Finger lwfinger net>
Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Wireless requires roaming to be turned off and back on before connecting
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:37:17 -0400

On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 11:50 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Paul Burne wrote:
> > If I open terminal and type 'iwlist wlan0 scan', I get, 'wlan0 No scan
> > results'.
> 
> Is this done as root, which does an active scan, or as an ordinary user, which 
> does a passive scan?

AFAIK you can't actually run that command at all unless you're root,
since it has the potential to interrupt traffic either way.

Dan

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