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On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:34:07AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

> best we can do is set AP_SCAN=2, let wpa_supplicant blow all the
> settings to the card, and just _hope_ that the card/driver are smart
> enough to find the hidden SSID on their own and associate.  Which is
> less often than we'd hope.

Dan, how does this comport w/ the mac80211 behavior?  I.E. if mac80211
can find my hidden AP when using WEP (or nothing), why can't ap_scan=2
find the same AP?

John
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