Re: [RFC PATCH] mac80211 : Association with 11n hidden ssid ap.

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:26:35AM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 09:35 -0700, Abhijeet Kolekar wrote:
> > This patch fixes the association problem with 11n hidden ssid ap.
> > Patch fixes the problem of associating with hidden ssid when
> > all three parameters ap,essid and channel are given to iwconfig.
> > This patch removes the condition of checking three parameters
> > and always checks for bss in bss list while associating.
> 
> Johannes, can you please take a look at this patch? The original code
> looks like a shortcut to start authentication/association when all the
> three parameters (BSSID/SSID/CHANNEL) are provided. But this is not
> sufficient in the case of associate with an 11N hidden SSID AP. The 11n
> and wmm information must be retrieved by an active probe request. Not
> doing so will cause the 11N AP refuse to associate with the client.

I'll ACK this based on the above explanation and because I don't
think it will do any harm. :-)

John
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