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Re: reproducible association with wrong essid, iwl3945

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On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 11:08 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Get a normal association so the network works. (WEP encryption)
> $ iwconfig wlan0 nonexistent_essid key s:correct_key
> 
> The network keeps working!  I would expect the driver to look
> for an access point with the different essid, and fail
> if no such access point exists.
> Two different networks with the same encryption string is possible, 
> after all.

Should definitely fail, disassociate, and send the SIOCSIWAP event with
00:00:00:00:00:00 via wireless_send_event().

Dan


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