On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 15:39 -0700, MJang wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 13:50 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > > This happened in the past with both Toshiba and Sony notebooks, and today > > with the Dell Latitude E4510 laptop: my wireless network sniffer shows a > > strong signal (3-4 of 4 lights on) yet wicd-client cannot find a wireless > > network for connection. This was at Providence Med. Center in NE Portland. > > > > What might cause wicd to not find a network when the signal strength is > > strong? > > IIRC, there are a number of bugs related to wicd and hidden networks, > esp related to encryption. The following google seems to confirm: > > wicd "hidden network" > > Other question -- I know I see hidden networks with an empty SSID when I > run the following command in RHEL 6 and Ubuntu 10.04 > > iwlist wlan0 scan > > If that command reveals hidden networks, you probably can set up a > connection manually with some variation of iwconfig. (I know something > like the following works on a WEP network:)
meant to include the command: iwconfig wlan0 essid "" enc adsf3524 > > > Thanks, > Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
