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 11:17:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010151713.GE5962@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1192026847.9739.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:34:07AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> best we can do is set AP_SCAN=2, let wpa_supplicant blow all the
> settings to the card, and just _hope_ that the card/driver are smart
> enough to find the hidden SSID on their own and associate. Which is
> less often than we'd hope.
Dan, how does this comport w/ the mac80211 behavior? I.E. if mac80211
can find my hidden AP when using WEP (or nothing), why can't ap_scan=2
find the same AP?
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
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
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 [this message]
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