Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:29:19 -0500
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Zhao, Shanyu" <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] cfg80211: wext: set bssid to NULL in SIOCIWESSID
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On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:25:04PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 14:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> > > > 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?
> 
> Sorry -- I wasn't clear. My mail missed something in describing the
> problem, but that doesn't change the fact that the patch will break it.

OK, thanks for clarifying! :-)

John
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