Subject: Re: ath0 spontaneously binding to a channel?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/09/2006 20:32:40
The only time I've seen that is after doing 'ifconfig ath0 chan 1' or
some other number, and 'ifconfig ath0 -chan' puts it back to scan
mode.

Did you run kismet?