[Prism54-devel] Reg prism54 driver

[Shawn Anderson]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:07:58AM +0000, capm iiith wrote:
> hello,

hi

>  
>         We are using Prism54 driver for which i want some details.
>  
> 1. Can we trigger scan request from driver code prism54
> 
> The question in deatil: 
>  
>    iwconfig eth1 essid off
>    iwconfig eth1 essid on
> 
> The result after the execution of the above commands is 
> 
>  that the  essid is set to AP which has strongest signal strength.
> 
> In this, the process actually  goes as 
> 
> 1. scan the channels
> 2. Get the list of bssid's 
> 3. select the best bssid and
> 4. set it
> 
> Here the SIOCSIWSCAN calls the corressponding call at the 
> isl_38xx interace level(i.e prism54_set_scan function call).
> But there its written that the device looks the scanning process  automatically.
> 
> 
> We want to know whether a user can trigger scan request from the 
> driver code prism54 directly.
> 
> 
> 2. If yes then how can We set the channel to trigger the probe request on.
> 
> 
> We expect a quick reply. 

If I issue this command:

iwconfig eth1 essid ""

it will choose the best AP, and connect to it.
is this what your looking for?

but if you just want to scan, try "iwlist eth1 scan"

hth,
sa