wireless scan: 'ifconfig <iface> scan' hangs often

[Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi]

Em Ter, 2008-12-09 às 12:31 -0800, Yuri escreveu:

> I use wireless with this device:
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xcffe0000-0xcffeffff irq 16 at device 5.0 on pci0
> and very often (most of the times) 'ifconfig ath0 scan' hangs.
> 
> First time I do scan it usually succeeds but the second and subsequent 
> runs of
> this command hang in 50+% of cases.
> 
> It hangs equally when I am trying to run this command when network is 
> associated and running and down.
> 
> Is this a bug in driver or what the problem might be?
> 
> Yuri

Hello Yuri....

try using ifconfig ath0 list scan

it will list the contents of the cache in the sip and never hangs....