Set SSID=hex doesn't work

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 07:19 +0700, Pongsak Tawankanjanachot wrote:
> Hi
>     Thank you for your suggestion. I've tried that, but the result is
> the same. No suitable AP found.
> wpa_supplicant.conf
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> eapol_version=1
> ap_scan=1
> network={
>         ssid=001a4d2f872c
>         key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021X
>         pairwise=CCMP
>         eap=PEAP
>         phase1="peaplabel=0"
>         phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
>         identity="test"
>         password="test"
> }
> 
> HERE is result from -dd option.
> 
> # Initializing interface 'ra0' conf '/jffs2/wpa_supplicant.conf'
> driver 'ralink' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
> Configuration file '/jffs2/wpa_supplicant.conf' ->
> '/jffs2/wpa_supplicant.conf'
> Reading configuration file '/jffs2/wpa_supplicant.conf'
> ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
> eapol_version=1
> ap_scan=1
> Line: 4 - start of a new network block
> ssid - hexdump_ascii(len=6):
>      00 1a 4d 2f 87 2c
> __M/_,          
> key_mgmt: 0x9
> pairwise: 0x10
> eap methods - hexdump(len=16): 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00
> phase1 - hexdump_ascii(len=11):
>      70 65 61 70 6c 61 62 65 6c 3d 30
> peaplabel=0     
> phase2 - hexdump_ascii(len=13):
>      61 75 74 68 3d 4d 53 43 48 41 50 56 32
> auth=MSCHAPV2   
> identity - hexdump_ascii(len=4):
>      74 65 73 74
> test            
> password - hexdump_ascii(len=4): [REMOVED]
> Priority group 0
>    id=0 ssid=''
> Initializing interface (2) 'ra0'
> EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
> ........
> Selecting BSS from priority group 0
> Try to find WPA-enabled AP
> 0: 00:1a:4d:2f:87:2c ssid='TEST' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=22 caps=0x411
>    skip - SSID mismatch
> Try to find non-WPA AP
> 0: 00:1a:4d:2f:87:2c ssid='TEST' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=22 caps=0x411
>    skip - SSID mismatch
> No suitable AP found.
> 
> 
>     I also try ssid="001a4d2f872c", but wpa is looking for a text ssid
> as "001a4d2f872c" (which my AP SSID is "TEST").

So why not use:

ssid="TEST"

then?

Dan