WPA_CLI: Difficulty switching from 1connection to another

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 05:01:38PM -0700, George S. Lockwood wrote:

> As requested here is a log of a case of it not connecting to a network after
> a connection is established.  In fact this is trying to connect to the very
> same network that it was connected to just before.  Sorry couldn't get all
> the console msgs but you can see that the connection is authenticated.

This does not match with what I understood you were trying to do, i.e.,
moving between two different APs and neither does this do just the
select_network command. Disconnect command is requesting wpa_supplicant
to disconnect from all networks, you will need to use reassociate to get
it connected again. If that does not work, please send a debug log that
continues further after the wpa_cli command.

> Please note: I've added the time to the console msgs, and yes I see that
> sometimes it get written twice, not sure why at this moment, but that is not
> my concern just now.

-t command line option in wpa_supplicant should add the timestamp
correctly without any modification needed for this..

>   2.  through wpa_cli I send a ap_scan=2 command. (because it is
>   hidden).

>   5. Then through wpa_cli I send a disconnect command.

>   6. through wpa_cli I send another ap_scan=2 command.

This should not be needed since ap_scan=2 was already configured in step
2.

>   8. through wpa_cli I send another select_network "FeatherSecure"
>   command

Since you used disconnect in step 5, this should be replaced with
reassociate command. select_network can be used to move between two
networks when disconnect command is not used.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA