On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:34:47AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > 1 means wpa_supplicant scans around and tries to find the AP. But if > the AP is "hidden", wpa_supplicant won't find it because wpa_supplicant > doesn't know how to find hidden APs. NM works around that by caching > the BSSID after a successful connection, and when it finds that BSSID in > scan results, filling in the SSID.
Just caught this -- so, how does NM find that BSSID in the first place? Someone un-hides the network long enough to connect, then NM just remembers? Or is this "ask for the SSID, expect driver scanning routines to find it _somehow_, then cache the results"? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
