Re: WPA Supplicant doesn't see my SSIDs?

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.

> Try not setting scan_ssid in the network block; not sure that it does 
> anything useful.                                                      

I've tried it both ways. I believe it handles APs that don't respond to
broadcasts. It was unclear if these Aironet APs were or not. There's no
obvious setting for it in their configuration.

> Also you terminate the scan after one try; when a channel is crowded
> sometimes the first scan may not find all ap's on it.

I just did that for the sake of pasting the output. I've left it running
while tweaking configuration options and running 'wpa_cli reconfigure'
but I've never managed to get our SSID to appear in wpa_supplicant's
output. Odd that it picks up SDC-WAP-001 no problem.

> You can also build the 80211debug program in src/tools/tools/ath and
> do 80211debug scan to get debug msgs from kernel sent to the console.

Will do.


-Snow