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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 23:12:24 +0200
From: Stefan Pietsch <stefan.pietsch@lsexperts.de>
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Subject: Re: iwlwifi: Invalid RXON when trying to join IBSS network
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On 09.04.2014 22:27, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 22:05 +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote:
> 
>> [  489.184233] wlan0: Trigger new scan to find an IBSS to join
>> [  489.320584] wlan0: Selected IBSS BSSID 55:44:33:22:11:00 based on
>> configured SSID
> 
> Well, 55:... still has the multicast bit set.
> 
> Clearly this is a bug and we should just refuse this in mac80211, but by
> setting the BSSID by hand to an invalid value you're really just
> shooting yourself in the foot. :)
> 
> johannes


My bad. I was not aware of that.

I set the first byte to 00 and it worked.

Thanks!