On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 08:27:40PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 10:57 -0800, Zhao, Shanyu wrote: > > Actually I don't think my patch disables that functionality. If > > there're multiple AP with the same essid "foo" and one of them has MAC > > "00:...:ff", then: > > > > iwconfig wlan0 essid "foo" > > This will make the station associate with the first AP with essid > > "foo". > > > > iwconfig wlan0 ap "00:...:ff" > > This will disassociate from the previous AP, and then associate with > > the first AP with MAC "00:...:ff". > > > > Am I missing anything here? > > No, I missed something. The problem will only occur when the SSID is > hidden as well, because the connect code will not have the SSID and not > know what to scan for, or which SSID to choose (there are Cisco APs that > use the same BSSID for multiple hidden SSIDs). Well, in the confusion I deleted the original post. Could you (i.e. Shanyu Zhao) resend it to me? Thanks, John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
