Comment 99 for bug 291760

By the way, if you apply the wpasupplicant patch I referenced in bug#549269 you can then do manual scans with wpa_cli without interfering with network-manager. (The feature is already in upstream wpasupplicant 0.7.x so upgrading that would work too.) With easy mechanisms for manual scanning, there's no reason not to at least provide an option to turn off automatic background scans.