On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:15:07 +0200
Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 15:29 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> 
> > While troubleshooting, I encountered this thread [0] about various
> > users' experiences associating with APs with hidden essids.  My 4318
> > won't associate using bcm43xx (Debian Sid, 2.6.22) with an AP hiding
> > its essid by broadcasting nulls in place of the essid (e.g. "\000\000
> > \000\000")
> 
> Sounds like a softmac bug and that means it won't get fixed. Try
> b43(legacy)

Sorry, I should've mentioned that it's apparently indeed a SoftMac
issue.  From the logs:

> Aug 24 09:54:19 lizzie kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks 
> first.
> Aug 24 09:54:20 lizzie kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 13 
> channels starting with channel 1
> Aug 24 09:54:20 lizzie kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks 
> first.
> Aug 24 09:54:20 lizzie kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 13 
> channels starting with channel 1
> Aug 24 09:54:20 lizzie kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks 
> first.
> Aug 24 09:54:20 lizzie dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:19:7d:06:a5:44
> Aug 24 09:54:20 lizzie dhclient: Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:19:7d:06:a5:44
> Aug 24 09:54:20 lizzie dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
> Aug 24 09:54:20 lizzie kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 13 
> channels starting with channel 1
> Aug 24 09:54:20 lizzie kernel: SoftMAC: Unable to find matching network after 
> scan! 

> johannes

Celejar
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