Doubt On Scanning Hidden AP

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Apr 21 12:30:56 EDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 10:56 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Montag, 21. April 2008 07:50:07 schrieb Raghavendra:
> >   "iwlist eth0 scanning essid test", scans and display result even if AP by
> > name "test" is hidden. Is there a way achieve this using wpa_supplicant.
> 
> Seems like your driver does support SSID-scans. If you use ap_scan=1 
> wpa_supplicant should do the same as iwlist and trigger a scan for the 
> specific SSID.

Right.

Dan




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