wpa_supplicant && associates to unknown AP

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Sunday, March 01, 2009 a las 09:44:05AM -0800, Sam Leffler escribió:

> I don't see a wpa_supplicant log.  The way iwi works is rather a hack 
> but necessitated by the crappy intel firmware.  There is no way to get 
> iwi to just scan but not associate so what's done is we install an 
> "impossible ssid" when we just want to scan then fill in the ssid and 
> tell it to scan on just the channel where the desired ap is located.  
> This has always worked but perhaps you caught ifconfig reporting status 
> that was temporary.  Without logs it's impossible to tell.

I will try to collect a wpa_supplicant log; this is a bit tricky because
wpa_supplicant is launched at boot time with hardcoded flags in
/etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant and it seems it does not log via syslog (at
least I don't see how this could be enabled in the man page);

> The other possibillity is your wpa_supplicant.conf file allowed 
> association to a "wildcard ap".  Can't tell w/o seeing the config file 
> and/or log.

No, there is no "wildcard ap".

Thx for your reply in any case.

	matthias

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