Passive Scannning

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 20:41 +0530, Kiran Kulkarni wrote:
> In wpa_supplicant I am searching for a functionality where I will put my 
> system in passive scan which will only listen to beacons. And if 
> networks are available I should get some notification on D-Bus or Socket 
> interface.

On Linux, wpa_supplicant will only request probe-scans when you have
"scan_ssid=1" in a network block.  Otherwise, it's up to the driver
whether passive or active scans are used.

You'll get a notification on the D-Bus interface when new scan results
are available, not sure about the socket interface.

Dan