iwlist scan broken with hostap 0.1.1/0.1.2?

markus.baumeister at philips.com markus.baumeister
Wed Nov 5 07:00:38 PST 2003


Hello,

after switching from a CVS version of hostap-0.0.3 to hostap-0.1.1 (and 
now also 0.1.2) it seems that the behaviour of iwlist scan seems to have 
changed dramatically making it effectively unusable:

In 0.0.3CVS it correctly showed the two AP we set up in a testbed:
| [root at dslappy hostap-0.0.3CVS]# iwlist wlan0 scan
| wlan0     Scan completed :
|          Cell 01 - Address: 00:09:5B:34:FE:78
|                    ESSID:"MyMLAN"
|                    Mode:Master
|                    Frequency:2.432GHz
|                    Quality:0/92  Signal level:-94 dBm  Noise level:-100 
dBm
|                    Encryption key:on
|                    Bit Rate:1Mb/s
|                    Bit Rate:2Mb/s
|                    Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
|                    Bit Rate:11Mb/s
|          Cell 02 - Address: 00:09:5B:3B:B1:FA
|                    ESSID:"MyMLAN"
|                    Mode:Master
|                    Frequency:2.412GHz
|                    Quality:0/92  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-99 
dBm
|                    Encryption key:on
|                    Bit Rate:1Mb/s
|                    Bit Rate:2Mb/s
|                    Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
|                    Bit Rate:11Mb/s


in 0.1.1/0.1.2 now it shows a seemingly random AP from another net 
(different ESSID) but none from the ESSID the card has been switched to:

| [root at dslappy hostap-driver-0.1.2]# iwlist wlan0 scan
| wlan0     Scan completed :
|          Cell 01 - Address: 00:09:5B:39:E3:5E
|                    ESSID:"M-LAN"
|                    Mode:Master
|                    Frequency:2.412GHz
|                    Quality:0/92  Signal level:-50 dBm  Noise level:-98 
dBm
|                    Encryption key:on
|                    Bit Rate:1Mb/s
|                    Bit Rate:2Mb/s
|                    Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
|                    Bit Rate:11Mb/s
|                    Extra:bcn_int=100
|
|[root at dslappy hostap-driver-0.1.2]# iwconfig
|lo        no wireless extensions.
|
|eth0      no wireless extensions.
|
|wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"MyMLAN"  Nickname:"dslappy.mlan.local"
|          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412GHz  Access Point: 
00:09:5B:3B:B1:FA 
|          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3 
|          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
|          Encryption key:6D65-446B-6579-4C6F-6E67-0000-00   Encryption 
mode:restricted
|          Power Management:off
|          Link Quality:28/92  Signal level:-84 dBm  Noise level:-100 dBm
|          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:354  Rx invalid frag:0
|          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:210   Missed beacon:0

Kind regards
        Markus Baumeister





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