From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>,
libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libertas: add auto auth mode feature
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:02:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267225338.14995.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267190482.3868.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:21 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:08 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>
> > However from a different point, how can you try open mode first and
> > detect a failure. Isn't this suppose to be the other way around, try
> > shared first and then fall back to open?
>
> No, why? If open doesn't get rejected, it should be ok to use.
Unless the AP filters by MAC address; some don't reject open auth in
this case they just accept the device. I too was under the impression
that it was shared first, open second. Since shared is much more likely
to get rejected.
Dan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-26 1:16 [PATCH] libertas: add auto auth mode feature Bing Zhao
2010-02-26 12:55 ` Holger Schurig
[not found] ` <c1545bb51002261210h27ba9868tca0261742b848e51@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <1267225266.14995.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2010-03-01 19:59 ` Deepak Saxena
2010-03-02 12:02 ` Holger Schurig
2010-03-03 18:52 ` Deepak Saxena
2010-03-03 19:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-26 13:08 ` Marcel Holtmann
2010-02-26 13:21 ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-26 23:02 ` Dan Williams [this message]
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