Comment 5 for bug 289977
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| Alexander Sack (asac) wrote Re: [Bug 289977] Re: PS3: NetworkManager doesn't list available wireless networks even though "iwlist wlan0 scan" does | #5 |
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:02:41PM -0000, Dan Munckton wrote:
> Attaching /var/log/syslog from the PS3. Note very interesting messages
> in the log:
>
> Oct 28 20:45:08 ps3 NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver does not
> support SSID scans (scan_capa 0x00).
>
> This is blatantly not true as a network scan can be successfully carried
> out with "iwlist scan".
Well, the scan_capa doesn't really say "we can/cannot scan", it refers
to advanced features wrt scanning which a driver should have nowadays.
Usually scan_capa = 0 indicates that the driver is either old or is in
bad shape. Drivers that use the new in-kernel mac stack all should
have scan_capa > 0, fwiw.
Anyway, even with scan_capa=0x0 basic scanning is done by NM itself,
but it definitly shows that the driver isn't on top of the latest and
greatest - which probably is the reason why this doesnt really work.
- Alexander