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

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 18:45 +1000, Paul Burne wrote:
> > Yeah, you're kind of out of luck with an InProComm card.  I did reply to
> > the bug report, I suspect driver problems at this time due to the lack
> > of scan results.
> 
> I do get scan results if I disable roaming then re-enable roaming, or I
> have also found that if I type "sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid any" it will
> come up fine, even if "iwconfig wlan0" shows the essid already set to
> off/any.
> 
> Any ideas why this kicks it into life?

Maybe it actually probe-scans at that point?  If you have to do these
steps just to get a single scan result, there's something wrong with the
driver.

Dan