On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 21:24 -0800, Zhao, Shanyu wrote: > Yes, that's exactly what I tried to do. From what I read from the man > page of iwconfig, I thought iwconfig wlanx ap <mac> should be enough > to connect to an ap without specifying the essid. Maybe I didn't > understand the correct usage of iwconfig. > > However, one of our test cases failed because of this: > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. set up the SSID name with Open/None in AP > 2. reload the driver > 3. interface up > 4. send the command 'iwconfig wlan0 ap <MAC address of the AP> > > Expected Results: > the association is established successfully. Fun, so you ran into one of the few things we don't (want to) support. And to be honest, I don't think there's a good reason to support it; for example this would never connect to a hidden SSID network. johannes -- 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
