Scanning problem for hidden SSIDs

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Jun 22 22:07:56 EDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 05:29 +0800, prabhakar wrote:
> Hi Holger, Dan,
> 
> I am using the same code as you mentioned.
> 
> My problem is,
> 
> Host driver is not getting any AP details when it sends scan command. If i 
> check the log of firmware by sending HostCmd_CMD_802_11_GET_LOG command to 
> firmware, it shows no rx frames received and tx frames count is not zero . 
> but i could see the probe responses from the APs. Please give me some idea 
> about this problem.

Some questions first; what chip, 8388 or 8385?  And what firmware
version?  If you have firmware 5.0.x, you may need Holger's fix for scan
TLVs.

Dan

> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Prabhakar.
> 
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Holger Schurig <hs4233 at mail.mn-solutions.de>
> To: libertas-dev at lists.infradead.org
> Sent: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:23:23 +0200
> Subject: Re: Scanning problem for hidden SSIDs
> 
> > > I just don't know how I can tell the firmware to send such a data
> > > packet. I think it is one of the bits in the txpd.powermgmt (page 24
> > > of the manual), but which one?
> > 
> > Ahh, Marvell just allowed the Gumstix people to released the 5.0.16
> > driver as GPL to the general community. The driver is at
> > http://files.gumstix.com/cf8385-5.0.16.p0-26306.tbz
> > 
> > There, in wlan_tx.c is a function SendNullPacket(wlan_private *priv, 
> > u8 pwr_mgmt) that I could use for this purpose.
> > 
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