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

[Christoph Haas]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 04:28:27PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for your attention. The kernel module I use is the 'ipw2200'
(version 2.4) I got from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
So the /etc/network/interfaces reads "wpa-driver wext".

The hardware is listed (by lspci) as:
"Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)".
It's built into a Fujitsu-SIEMENS Lifebook laptop.

 Christoph