linux-kernel - Re: attempt to scan fails (device busy) if essid/ssid was changed recently

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Date:	Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:27:40 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: attempt to scan fails (device busy) if essid/ssid was changed
 recently

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:20 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:

> > Of course, we can go back to dropping the scan request, but that
> > wouldn't be very nice.
> > 
> > Is this creating any problems?

> Yep, but dropping the request won't help ether.

Indeed.

> Problem is that wpa_supplicant will attempt to scan before association,
> scan fails (it doesn't know it is already running) thus it waits 10
> seconds. (I patched it to wait 2 seconds).
> 
> It happens if user first disconnects, and then reconnects to a network
> (typical test I do for time it takes to connect)
> 
> Now I patched it not to clear essid on disconnect, and this helped
> reduce connect times by about 2 seconds.
> 
> now it takes just 3~4 seconds to connect to open network, and ~6 seconds
> to WPA2 network.
> 
> (This is with patched dhclient, I reduced its timeouts, but this is
> another story.... it seems that first DHCPREQUEST never succeeds, and I
> tested this with 2 cards, and few wireless networks)

Have you tried with a new tree and wpa_supplicant's (from git) nl80211
driver? Might be a lot better.

johannes

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