Bug#368770: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#368770: wpasupplicant: takes a long time to associate to WEP protected hidden-SSID network

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 09:02:52PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> Basically, wpa_supplicant is launched with an absolutely blank 
> configuration (ctrl_interface). The /etc/wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh 
> script's job is to read the options given in /etc/network/interfaces 
> (described briefly in  /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz) for 
> the given interface and create a single network configuration, just as 
> if it was defined in a wpa_supplicant.conf file.

and wpa-ap-scan 2 will treat this single network configuration as if
it were read from a config file?

If so, the documentation is unclear as it explicitly refers to "the
config file", which got me misled.

I am going to try wpa-ap-scan 2 asap.

Greetings
Marc

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