On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:25:04PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 14:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > > > > 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? > > Sorry -- I wasn't clear. My mail missed something in describing the > problem, but that doesn't change the fact that the patch will break it. OK, thanks for clarifying! :-) 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
