Re: [PATCH 1/1] cfg80211: wext: set bssid to NULL in SIOCIWESSID

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

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 08:27:40PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 10:57 -0800, Zhao, Shanyu wrote:
> > Actually I don't think my patch disables that functionality. If
> > there're multiple AP with the same essid "foo" and one of them has MAC
> > "00:...:ff", then:
> > 
> > iwconfig wlan0 essid "foo"
> > This will make the station associate with the first AP with essid
> > "foo".
> > 
> > iwconfig wlan0 ap "00:...:ff"
> > This will disassociate from the previous AP, and then associate with
> > the first AP with MAC "00:...:ff".
> > 
> > Am I missing anything here?
> 
> No, I missed something. The problem will only occur when the SSID is
> hidden as well, because the connect code will not have the SSID and not
> know what to scan for, or which SSID to choose (there are Cisco APs that
> use the same BSSID for multiple hidden SSIDs).

Well, in the confusion I deleted the original post.  Could you
(i.e. Shanyu Zhao) resend it to me?

Thanks,

John
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