still having problems w/ hidden essid

[Charles Griffin]

Hello there---

I have been trying to get my dell 700m with internal dell 1450 a/b/g
wifi card to connect to my router when the essid broadcast is
disabled.  I tried this earlier on an apple extreme base station with
no luck.  I am now trying it with a linksys wrt54g and still no luck. 
Everything works fine and wpa works great if essid is broadcast.

Here is the output when I try to associate with essid broadcast disabled:

Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'ndiswrapp
er'
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
ap_scan=2
Priority group 0
   id=0 ssid='myessid'
Initializing interface (2) 'wlan0'
EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
Own MAC address: 00:aa:bb:cc
Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added
Trying to associate with SSID 'myessid'
Cancelling scan request
Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
WPA: Set cipher suites based on configuration
WPA: Selected cipher suites: group 30 pairwise 24 key_mgmt 2
WPA: using GTK CCMP
WPA: using PTK CCMP
WPA: using KEY_MGMT WPA-PSK
WPA: Own WPA IE - hexdump(len=24): 00 00 00 
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
State: DISCONNECTED -> ASSOCIATING
Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0
EAPOL: External notification - EAP fail=0
EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
Added BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 into blacklist
State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
Setting scan request: 0 sec 0 usec
Trying to associate with SSID 'myessid'
Cancelling scan request
Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
WPA: Set cipher suites based on configuration
WPA: Selected cipher suites: group 30 pairwise 24 key_mgmt 2
WPA: using GTK CCMP
WPA: using PTK CCMP
WPA: using KEY_MGMT WPA-PSK
WPA: Own WPA IE - hexdump(len=24): 00 00 00
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
State: DISCONNECTED -> ASSOCIATING
Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0
EAPOL: External notification - EAP fail=0
EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 blacklist count incremented to 2
State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
Setting scan request: 0 sec 0 usec
Trying to associate with SSID 'myessid'
Cancelling scan request
Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
WPA: Set cipher suites based on configuration
WPA: Selected cipher suites: group 30 pairwise 24 key_mgmt 2
WPA: using GTK CCMP
WPA: using PTK CCMP
WPA: using KEY_MGMT WPA-PSK
WPA: Own WPA IE - hexdump(len=24): 00 00 00
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
State: DISCONNECTED -> ASSOCIATING
Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0
EAPOL: External notification - EAP fail=0
EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 blacklist count incremented to 2
State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
Setting scan request: 0 sec 0 usec
Trying to associate with SSID 'myessid'
Cancelling scan request
Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
WPA: Set cipher suites based on configuration
WPA: Selected cipher suites: group 30 pairwise 24 key_mgmt 2
WPA: using GTK CCMP
WPA: using PTK CCMP
WPA: using KEY_MGMT WPA-PSK
WPA: Own WPA IE - hexdump(len=24): 00 00 00
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
State: DISCONNECTED -> ASSOCIATING
Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0
EAPOL: External notification - EAP fail=0
EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
^XCTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received
State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
Removed BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 from blacklist (clear)


Here is my wpa_supplicant.conf:

ap_scan=2
network={
ssid="myessid"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="mypsk"
}

This is on Slackware 10.1 btw.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.  I would really like to be able
to connect with essid broadcast disabled.

Thanks,
Charles