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Bug 597998 - Add configure option to disable background scanning for wireless networks
Add configure option to disable background scanning for wireless networks
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: general
0.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-10 12:48 UTC by Zsolt Barat
Modified: 2009-10-13 18:45 UTC
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Description Zsolt Barat 2009-10-10 12:48:53 UTC 
Add (or readd) a configure option to disable background scanning of wireless networks. The current problem is that ath9k halts the network connection when a scan for other APs is going on.
My current workaround is to switch to wicd.
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2009-10-13 18:45:45 UTC 
This is fixed in kernel 2.6.32 and later with background scanning at the driver level...  We could also do some combination of traffic triggering to postpone the scan for a while, but a config option is not going to happen for a number of reasons with roaming being a large one.  But this just got fixed in the kernel for 2.6.32, in any case.