Doubt On Scanning Hidden AP

Helmut Schaa hschaa
Mon Apr 21 01:56:01 PDT 2008


Hi,

Am Montag, 21. April 2008 07:50:07 schrieb Raghavendra:
>   "iwlist eth0 scanning essid test", scans and display result even if AP by
> name "test" is hidden. Is there a way achieve this using wpa_supplicant.

Seems like your driver does support SSID-scans. If you use ap_scan=1 
wpa_supplicant should do the same as iwlist and trigger a scan for the 
specific SSID.

Regards,
Helmut



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