Bug#367655: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#367655: wpasupplicant: ESSID not set by "wpa-ssid" setting

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:46:10PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote:
> It appears like the ESSID is not set properly when the interface comes up.
> [...]
> Still when running "iwconfig" I can see that the ESSID is not set to "foobar".
> Perhaps the wpa_cli just sets a bunch of parameter for a WLAN with the
> ESSID "foobar" - but doesn't actually assign that ESSID to the interface.
> 
> My current workaround: adding a "wireless-essid foobar" to the interface
> definition

The difference between wpa-essid and wireless-ssid is that the later is
set by iwconfig and the first one by wpasupplicant via Wireless
Extension IO-Calls. I suspect that your driver modules doesn't implement
WE correctly. Could you please tell us what hardware and what driver do
you use? Please tell us the exact version as well.

Gruesse,
	Reinhard