diff -urp contrib/wpa_supplicant/events.c.orig contrib/wpa_supplicant/events.c
--- contrib/wpa_supplicant/events.c.orig	Tue Mar  7 13:44:45 2006
+++ contrib/wpa_supplicant/events.c	Wed Jul 26 19:23:43 2006
@@ -482,6 +482,22 @@ static void wpa_supplicant_event_scan_re
 		rsn_preauth_scan_results(wpa_s->wpa, results, num);
 	} else {
 		wpa_printf(MSG_DEBUG, "No suitable AP found.");
+
+		/*
+		 * try to associate with the first IBSS network
+		 * if there is any
+		 */
+		for (ssid = wpa_s->conf->ssid; ssid; ssid = ssid->next) {
+			if (ssid->disabled || ssid->ssid == NULL)
+				continue;
+			if (ssid->mode != IEEE80211_MODE_IBSS)
+				continue;
+			wpa_printf(MSG_DEBUG,
+			    "Trying to associate with IBSS %s",
+			    wpa_ssid_txt(ssid->ssid, ssid->ssid_len));
+			wpa_supplicant_associate(wpa_s, NULL, ssid);
+			return;
+		}
 		wpa_supplicant_req_scan(wpa_s, 5, 0);
 	}
 }