On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 14:57 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > so I was testing IBSS, and found this strange behaviour: > > * wpa_supplicant (or NM?) will try to do SIWMLME(disassoc) in IBSS > mode, which seems kinda wrong. Why do we accept it? We send out a > frame and then do nothing else. > * Then I thought "iwconfig wlan1 essid off" - but that fails with > -EINVAL due to ieee80211_sta_find_ibss > > It seems to me that either one of those, or both, should actually turn > off beaconing. Either one; the supplicant uses SIWMLME(disassoc) at various times (like when leaving a BSS), and NM will sometimes set a NULL SSID when deactivating the device. 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
