Set SSID=hex doesn't work

[Jouni Malinen]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:11:50AM +0700, Pongsak Tawankanjanachot wrote:

>    As I read from the README, we can set the wpa_supplicant's parameter by
> using hex string as SSID name. Here is my network block:
> wpa_supplicant.conf

> network={
>         ssid="00:1a:4d:2f:87:2c"

Are you sure that is the SSID that you want to use?

> 0: 00:1a:4d:2f:87:2c ssid='TEST1' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=22 caps=0x411
>    skip - SSID mismatch

Based on the scan results, it looks more like the BSSID of the network,
not the SSID (which is TEST1 in this AP). You can set the BSSID with the
bssid option in the network block, but for a WPA network, you will also
need to configure the SSID.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA