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. > > 2 means NM must fill out the config for the network completely, and > wpa_supplicant just blows those settings to the card and waits for the > association to succeed. This is most closely analogous to a lot of > 'iwconfig' commands. Only in this mode can wpa_supplicant really > connect to a hidden network, because NM would have given wpa_supplicant > both SSID and BSSID. > > So it's understandable why wpa_supplicant doesn't set the SSID on the > card when you give it AP_SCAN=1, because it can't _find_ that SSID in > scan results precisely because the SSID isn't broadcasting it's SSID.
So, wpa_supplicant only requests a scan? It never sends any probes itself? Forgive me if this is an ignorant question -- I haven't peered much into these userland bits... John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
