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Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1 v3] cfg80211: wext: fix cfg80211's SIOCSIWAP
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On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 21:24 -0800, Zhao, Shanyu wrote:
> Yes, that's exactly what I tried to do. From what I read from the man
> page of iwconfig, I thought iwconfig wlanx ap <mac> should be enough
> to connect to an ap without specifying the essid. Maybe I didn't
> understand the correct usage of iwconfig.
> 
> However, one of our test cases failed because of this:
> Steps to Reproduce: 
> 1. set up the SSID name with Open/None in AP
> 2. reload the driver
> 3. interface up
> 4. send the command 'iwconfig wlan0 ap <MAC address of the AP>
> 
> Expected Results:
> the association is established successfully.

Fun, so you ran into one of the few things we don't (want to) support.
And to be honest, I don't think there's a good reason to support it; for
example this would never connect to a hidden SSID network.

johannes