#4185 HIGH Never A: OFW wlan can't associate in crowds

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#4185: OFW wlan can't associate in crowds
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 Reporter:  wmb at firmworks.com    |       Owner:  wmb at firmworks.com      
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                    
 Priority:  high                 |   Milestone:  Never Assigned         
Component:  ofw - open firmware  |     Version:  OFW development version
 Keywords:                       |    Verified:  0                      
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 In an environment with many 802.11 access points, OFW often fails to find
 the SSID that it is looking for.

 The reason is because OFW asks the scan function for all the channels at
 once, and if there are too many respondents, the one you want is often not
 in the fixed length buffer.

 A better way would be to use the Libertas "filtered scan" function, asking
 the wlan module to find the requested SSID.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4185>
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