From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
ipw3945-devel <ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: mac80211/iwlwifi + hidden ssids
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:20:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010152027.GF5962@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1192028866.9739.32.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:07:46AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:57 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> > btw shouldn't all mac80211 drivers either work or not work because the
> > code for this is in mac80211 and not in the drivers?
>
> Yeah, pretty much; but each driver/firmware may handle hidden ssids
> slightly differently. mac80211 should bring some sanity to this area,
> but I wouldn't discount variation between even mac80211 based drivers.
Hmmm...doesn't the iwlwifi firmware intercede in scanning?
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 9:45 mac80211/iwlwifi + hidden ssids dragoran
2007-10-10 13:06 ` John W. Linville
2007-10-10 13:47 ` dragoran
2007-10-10 14:22 ` John W. Linville
2007-10-10 14:34 ` Dan Williams
2007-10-10 14:57 ` dragoran
2007-10-10 15:07 ` Dan Williams
2007-10-10 15:20 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-10-10 17:41 ` Johannes Berg
2007-10-10 17:43 ` [ipw3945-devel] " Ferguson, Dana R
2007-10-10 17:54 ` Ferguson, Dana R
2007-10-10 18:10 ` John W. Linville
2007-10-10 19:28 ` Tomas Winkler
2007-10-11 4:03 ` Dan Williams
2007-10-10 15:17 ` John W. Linville
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