Problem with the ROAM wpa_cli command and external scans.

[Ben Greear]

On 07/10/2015 10:54 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 03:59:00PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> Previously (or so I believe), I could request a scan using 'iw', and then
>> tell wpa_cli to do a roam now than the scan is fresh.  I let user specify
>> the channels to scan with iw so that I can minimize scan time..which is a big help
>> when doing lots of virtual stations.
>>
>> But, now it seems wpa_supplicant ignores these external scans.
> 
> Why would you use iw for doing the scan if you end up using
> wpa_supplicant control interface for the ROAM command anyway? I would
> use "SCAN freq=<known freq(s)>" instead for triggering the scan and then
> follow that with ROAM if the BSS table includes the target BSS.

I can look into doing it with wpa_cli.  But, why/when would you want to ignore
external scans anyway?

Regardless, I think this particular problem was not caused by scan results,
but was instead that the station was not associated when I requested the
ROAM.  To fix this properly, I probably need to make wpa_cli able to return
a numeric error code (to program against), and a string error message to
show to users...having to look through the logs and detect specific errors
that way programatically is probably not a useful way to go about it.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
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