wpasupplicant and multiple/hidden SSIDs

Dave Hansen dave at sr71.net
Fri Dec 7 19:09:17 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 18:57 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > The problem is that I don't think the scan_ssid=1 logic comes into
> play
> > until it finds an explicitly hidden ssid.  In my case, I think
> > wpasupplicant looks around and sees the ~10 "VISITOR" access points,
> > notes that it doesn't have any config entries for them, then
> promptly
> > ignores them. :(
> 
> You've tried scan_ssid=1 + ap_scan=1 already I take it?

Yeah, wpasupplicant doesn't try to associate because it sees that the
scan_ssid=1 network is a WPA network, yet the APs don't advertise WPA.

-- Dave




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