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From: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@googlemail.com>
To: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, sameo@linux.intel.com, dcbw@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] cfg80211: Retrieve missing BSS info after connect
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:27:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002061827.48913.holgerschurig@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265462416-7547-1-git-send-email-kilroyd@googlemail.com>

> It sounds like the libertas cfg80211 drivers have the same problem, so I'm
> posting them in case they're useful.

I'm not sure about that.

One thing that I'm sure of is that for the Libertas case I need to scan 
*before* the connection takes place. The Libertas firmware doesn't roam by 
itself, so I don't tell her an SSID like you'll tell the orinoco firmware.

Instead the libertas firmware needs a BSSID where it should connect to. If 
you let do wpa_supplicant do the job (even for WEP), that's no problem, 
because wpa_supplicant always scans and then connects to a specific BSSID, 
which suits Libertas very well.

As for sending back then cfg80211_connect_result() to cfg80211, I'm using 
the IEs from the firmware CMD_802_11_ASSOCIATE command, which seems to work 
quite nicely.



The only thing where Libertas would need a scan during connect if someone 
tries to connect to an AP without a previous scan using the "iw wlan0 
connect" command. Not sure what Simon did here, but my previous v4 patch 
simply failed.

-- 
http://www.holgerschurig.de

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-06 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-06 13:20 [RFC 0/2] cfg80211: Retrieve missing BSS info after connect David Kilroy
2010-02-06 13:20 ` [RFC 1/2] cfg80211: generic trigger scan and callback on completion David Kilroy
2010-02-06 13:35   ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-06 13:20 ` [RFC 2/2] cfg80211: scan for missing BSS on connect completion David Kilroy
2010-02-06 13:38   ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-06 13:51 ` [RFC 0/2] cfg80211: Retrieve missing BSS info after connect Johannes Berg
2010-02-06 18:26   ` Dave
2010-02-06 18:59     ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-06 17:27 ` Holger Schurig [this message]
2010-02-06 17:52   ` Dave

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