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Re: [PATCH] PS3: gelic: ignore scan info from zero SSID beacons

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On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 13:15 +0900, Masakazu Mokuno wrote:
> Some implementations of the hidden SSID APs emit beacons which have the zero
> length SSID information element instead of SSID padded by null (\0) characters.
> If the firmware of the PS3 wireless hardware meets these beacons, it abandons parsing
> IEs. Thus guest OSes get the invalid scan information for the AP.
> 
> To work around this, ignore these scan informations from the list.

I'm not sure this is a good idea. Is there any way to get at decent
information from those beacons?

johannes

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