From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 09:24:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D071E16A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:24:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.fluidhosting.com (mail1.fluidhosting.com [204.14.90.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 428EB43D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:24:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 50074 invoked by uid 399); 26 Aug 2005 09:24:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (dougb@dougbarton.net@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Aug 2005 09:24:24 -0000 Message-ID: <430EDFC7.2000709@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:24:23 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050726) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <20050825134924.GA87803@fit.vutbr.cz> <430E667D.50508@FreeBSD.org> <20050826041113.GC28894@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050826041113.GC28894@odin.ac.hmc.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rudolf Cejka , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to connect to wireless 802.11 AP with hidden SSID X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:24:26 -0000 Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:46:53PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > >>Rudolf Cejka wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> after an upgrade from 5.x to 7.x (Aug 22), I'm unable to connect to >>>wireless 802.11 access point, which hides its own SSID, using dhclient >>>(manual settings do work, however it is not very good workaround...). >> >>I can't judge the validity of the patch, but I did want to give a "me too" >>on the new dhclient inexplicably blanking a valid ssid when it's started. >>The ssid on my APs is not hidden now, although I have seen this behavior >>with both hidden and visible ssids. > > > Which device are you using? This certainly sounds like a driver bug to > me. I can't seem to trivialy replicate it with the iwi(4) or ath(4) > nics I use with me laptop. I'm 100% sure it was happening with my ndis card, fairly certain it was happening with ath too, but I wouldn't swear to it. Did you have a chance to review the patch submitted by Rudolf? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection