[Aironet] Question about frequency synchronization

[Dardan B. <da...@ip...>]

Hi all,
I have one question: when the AP and the client/host/station are, at the
beginning, set to work at different frequencies/channels, how does the
station associate and synchronize to the AP? Does the station emit at each
and every frequency successively until it gets synchronized with the AP
whose ssid it has (sounds very reasonable) or AP broadcasts at all channels
and "tells" the stations about "the working" frequency (sounds not very
reasonable)? I'm talking about DSSS.
TIA,
Dardan