Is there a way to put wpa supplicant only in scan state?

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 12:12 +0530, Raghavendra. S wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>  Is there a way to put wpa supplicant only in scan state?
> 
> I mean can we have some configuration in wpa_supplicant.conf using
> which I can put wpa supplicant in scan state. It should never try to
> get associated with any of the APs available in that network.
> 
> Even it should not get connected to non-secured APs also. It should
> just get enabled and should return the scanned info.

Don't give it any network blocks, and issue it scan commands explicitly
over the control socket periodically.

Dan