On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 14:11 -0400, Richard Farina wrote:

> Yes, and at what point does it seem like a good idea to hide the channel 
> the wifi card is on?  If I set channel 11 and it is scanning instead of 
> locked on channel 11 then I should see the current channel the hardware 
> is on.  This seems like an aweful idea to me, granted, it may help a few 
> people that don't understand how scanning works, but hiding the truth is 
> never a good idea. NACK.

It's not really about hiding the truth. Besides, many many devices are
_already_ "hiding the truth" (to use your words) because they do
scanning in firmware and you never know what channel they're on (e.g.
all Intel wireless hardware).

I think it's completely pointless for us to reply to the question "what
channel am I on" with the answer "currently the receiver is tuned to
132", when we can say "you're associated to a network on channel 11".

After all, we don't unset the SSID/BSSID when scanning either, even
though we're currently not talking to the AP.

johannes