From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>, linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: turning off IBSS (with wext)
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:41:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233938496.28437.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233928622.4175.9.camel@johannes.local>
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 14:57 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> so I was testing IBSS, and found this strange behaviour:
>
> * wpa_supplicant (or NM?) will try to do SIWMLME(disassoc) in IBSS
> mode, which seems kinda wrong. Why do we accept it? We send out a
> frame and then do nothing else.
> * Then I thought "iwconfig wlan1 essid off" - but that fails with
> -EINVAL due to ieee80211_sta_find_ibss
>
> It seems to me that either one of those, or both, should actually turn
> off beaconing.
Either one; the supplicant uses SIWMLME(disassoc) at various times (like
when leaving a BSS), and NM will sometimes set a NULL SSID when
deactivating the device.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-06 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-06 13:57 turning off IBSS (with wext) Johannes Berg
2009-02-06 16:41 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2009-02-06 20:40 ` Johannes Berg
2009-02-06 20:49 ` Dan Williams
2009-02-06 20:53 ` Johannes Berg
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