On 8/8/07, Thomas M Steenholdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wpa_supplicant only - ap_scan=1: > > The hidden network is found during the scanning, but is never identified > as my network, since wpa_supplicant expects a certain SSID and the > hidden net shows an SSID of "" (SSID mismatch). The device SSID is > never set. > (as soon as I set the device SSID with iwconfig in this mode, > wpa_supplicant makes the association happen)
perhaps I am just being dull ... but is not the above exactly what should happen? From the perspective of NM, if an SSID is hidden, a user would need to supply it by choosing "connect to other wireless network". Once the user types in the SSID, NM *should* pass that to wpa_supplicant, and then association should occur. Or, am I missing something? In my case ... since "connect to other wireless network" does not work, it appears that one of two things must be going wrong: 1)NM is not properly handing the SSID to wpa_supplicant (is failing to do what iwconfig does when you use it to set SSID), or 2)wpa_supplicant is not running in ap_scan=1 mode So ... either the hand-off is broken or the mode is wrong. (and the mode appears to be unsettable from the NM gui, which is another issue to my mind --- linux is about choice, right?) :-) Anyway ... we don't need wpa_supplicant to "find" the hidden SSID, do we? We just need it to succeed connecting, when we TELL it the SSID. Peter ps -- sorry if I am being obtuse, perhaps my sig line below applies? :-) -- Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. Bertrand Russell www.the-brights.net _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list