Re: [Madwifi-users] "ath0: Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable"

[Charles <wi...@be...>]

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 17:45 +0100, Vanja Hrustic wrote:
> 
> Card works quite allright, but I am seeing strange error message when
> trying to do "iwlist ath0 scan". For example:
> 
> [root@x x]# iwlist ath0 scan
> ath0      Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> [root@x x]# iwlist ath0 scan
> ath0      Scan completed :
>           Cell 01 - Address: 00:50:FC:F4:16:95
>                     ESSID:"default"
>                     Mode:Master
>                     Frequency:2.462GHz
>                     Quality:0/94  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-95
> dBm
>                     Encryption key:off
>                     Bit Rate:1Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:2Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:5Mb/s
>                     Bit Rate:11Mb/s
>                     Extra:bcn_int=100
> 
> [root@x x]# iwlist ath0 scan
> ath0      Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> [root@x x]#
> 
> More often than not, I do get "Resource temporarily unavailable" message.
> 
> I have seen a post at
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user/4472 which talks
> about this problem.


  Did you ever get any response other than mine on this?  It makes
several wireless management tools unusable with the 5212 a/b/g card.
This is true with the latest CVS of the madwifi driver.