From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3495 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752001AbYEMTVB (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 15:21:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:54:29 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Zhu Yi Cc: Abhijeet Kolekar , Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mac80211 : Association with 11n hidden ssid ap. Message-ID: <20080513185429.GA11756@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080513_212106_675759_B87C8D20) References: <12103509413156-git-send-email-abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> <1210641995.2506.200.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1210641995.2506.200.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com