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Re: [RFC 0/2] cfg80211: Retrieve missing BSS info after connect

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> It sounds like the libertas cfg80211 drivers have the same problem, so I'm
> posting them in case they're useful.

I'm not sure about that.

One thing that I'm sure of is that for the Libertas case I need to scan 
*before* the connection takes place. The Libertas firmware doesn't roam by 
itself, so I don't tell her an SSID like you'll tell the orinoco firmware.

Instead the libertas firmware needs a BSSID where it should connect to. If 
you let do wpa_supplicant do the job (even for WEP), that's no problem, 
because wpa_supplicant always scans and then connects to a specific BSSID, 
which suits Libertas very well.

As for sending back then cfg80211_connect_result() to cfg80211, I'm using 
the IEs from the firmware CMD_802_11_ASSOCIATE command, which seems to work 
quite nicely.



The only thing where Libertas would need a scan during connect if someone 
tries to connect to an AP without a previous scan using the "iw wlan0 
connect" command. Not sure what Simon did here, but my previous v4 patch 
simply failed.

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