On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 11:41 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > 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. Fun. Neither one actually works. johannes
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