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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:44:41 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wireless client won't associate to router with SSID not broadcast
Message-ID:  <87abgg1v7a.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <200807170628.43279.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> (Steven Friedrich's message of "Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:28:42 -0400")
References:  <200807162021.00044.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <87vdz5nwir.fsf@kobe.laptop> <200807170628.43279.FreeBSD@insightbb.com>

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:28:42 -0400, Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 July 2008 09:13:00 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Note: The man page for wpa_supplicant.conf incorrectly states ap_scan
> values other than 1 are for other operating systems.  Read
> /usr/share/examples/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf regarding
> ap_scan.

Excellent, thanks for posting the details.  I've filed a PR with the
text shown below, and I'll take care of updating the manpage.

: To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
: From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
: Subject: minor wpa_supplicant.conf buglet
: Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
: Cc:
: X-send-pr-version: 3.113
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: >Submitter-Id:  current-users
: >Originator:    Giorgos Keramidas
: >Organization:  <organization of PR author (multiple lines)>
: >Confidential:  no <FreeBSD PRs are public data>
: >Synopsis:      minor wpa_supplicant.conf buglet
: >Severity:      non-critical
: >Priority:      low
: >Category:      docs
: >Class:         doc-bug
: >Release:       FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT i386
: >Environment:
: System: FreeBSD kobe 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: \
: Tue Jul 8 09:10:21 EEST 2008 build@kobe:/home/build/obj/home/build/src/sys/KOBE i386
:
: >Description:
:
: The man page for wpa_supplicant.conf incorrectly states ap_scan values
: other than 1 are for other operating systems.  When ndiswrapper is used,
: it may be useful to set ap_scan=2.
:
: >How-To-Repeat:
: >Fix:
:
: I'll handle this.



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