On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:26:35AM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 09:35 -0700, Abhijeet Kolekar wrote: > > This patch fixes the association problem with 11n hidden ssid ap. > > Patch fixes the problem of associating with hidden ssid when > > all three parameters ap,essid and channel are given to iwconfig. > > This patch removes the condition of checking three parameters > > and always checks for bss in bss list while associating. > > Johannes, can you please take a look at this patch? The original code > looks like a shortcut to start authentication/association when all the > three parameters (BSSID/SSID/CHANNEL) are provided. But this is not > sufficient in the case of associate with an 11N hidden SSID AP. The 11n > and wmm information must be retrieved by an active probe request. Not > doing so will cause the 11N AP refuse to associate with the client. I'll ACK this based on the above explanation and because I don't think it will do any harm. :-) John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
