wpasupplicant and multiple/hidden SSIDs

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 16:09 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 18:57 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > The problem is that I don't think the scan_ssid=1 logic comes into
> > play
> > > until it finds an explicitly hidden ssid.  In my case, I think
> > > wpasupplicant looks around and sees the ~10 "VISITOR" access points,
> > > notes that it doesn't have any config entries for them, then
> > promptly
> > > ignores them. :(
> > 
> > You've tried scan_ssid=1 + ap_scan=1 already I take it?
> 
> Yeah, wpasupplicant doesn't try to associate because it sees that the
> scan_ssid=1 network is a WPA network, yet the APs don't advertise WPA.

That's odd, because it should be sending out a probe request anyway,
getting the probe response with the IE back, and updating it's scan
table.  At least, that's the way it's reasonable to expect that it would
work.  I wouldn't expect it to ignore the scan_ssid=1 just because the
network block doesn't match, because then what's the point of the
scan_ssid=1 anyway...

I assume you're not specifying the BSSID in the network block?

dan