Dan Williams wrote: snip, snip > > When I say "reassociate", I mean a new association cycle to the _same_ > BSSID/SSID using the settings that are current at that point in time. I > guess I should have made that clear. > > Dan > >> A quick look at ieee80211_ioctl_siwessid() shows that it always forces >> an authentication cycle. >> >> I'll experiment a little to see how the Softmac can be driven through an >> authentication/association cycle on calls to SIOCSIWESSID or SIOCSIWAP. >> >> rtg Dan, I agree that driving the SoftMAC protocol through an auth/assoc cycle when changing ESSID or BSSID is architecturally the right thing to do. However, the required changes are a bit too extensive for me to add to a recently released kernel (Feisty). I'll have to get back to this when I have more freedom to whack and slash. In the meantime, I still think emitting an ASSOC event is a good interim fix. I'll be testing it over the next few days within the Ubuntu community. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
