Subject: Re: Problems with "cfg80211: fix SME connect" commit
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:20:39 +0200
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On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 22:17 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>=20
> > The extra deauth is because cfg80211 already starts the auth with the
> > BSS before wpa_supplicant set the BSSID, and then when setting the BSSI=
D
> > it asks for deauth, but before we ever actually did anything... I think
> > we'll just have to live with that, since it's hard to fix in the layere=
d
> > design we have now.
>=20
> Hmm, I looked at the AP log, and the deauth is there...

Yeah. I've thought of doing a fix in mac80211, but haven't gotten around
to it yet -- should be fairly easy tho.

>  also I think
> due to recent changes, association takes longer now. Is there
> something that can be done in userland, for example?

You can use -Dnl80211 with wpa_supplicant, but other than that we may or
may not scan a few times more or less, which is somewhat unfortunate.
Though it shouldn't be taking longer due to these specific recent
changes, in fact this should make it faster, if anything, I think.

johannes

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