On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 17:18 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? Yeah, there are quite a few of these out there. Ideally the firmware wouldn't puke on it... Dan -- 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
