WPA Supplicant doesn't see my SSIDs?

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Thu Jun 16 20:11:48 GMT 2005


James Snow wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:58:17PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> 
>>What does ifconfig ath0 list scan show?  
> 
> 
> SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE  S:N   INT CAPS
> 0...            00:0e:83:af:77:f5   40   54M 27:0   100 EP   WPA WME
> 0...            00:0e:38:51:ca:6c   52   54M 28:0   100 EP   WPA WME
> 0x000000000...  00:07:eb:30:c6:de    1   11M 27:0   100 EPS 
> SDC-WAP-001     00:0f:66:18:20:00    6   11M  7:0   100 E   
> 
> My Windows box confirms that 00:0e:83:af:77:f5 is on channel 40, so
> there's definitely some communication taking place.

Are these ap's hiding their ssid?  Logs from the kernel with scan debug 
enabled would be useful.  I thought the probe request frames were sent 
with a directed ssid in them but the current scanning code is kinda 
stupid in this area.  I've totally rewritten it but that won't go in 6.0.

	Sam


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