Madwifi and hidden SSID

Jouni Malinen j
Fri Dec 28 15:18:49 PST 2007


On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:42:20PM +0100, Ruzsinszky Attila wrote:

> I did some tests and I found ap_scan=2 doesn't work at all for me.
> I unhide my SSID and wpa_supplicant can't connect when ap_scan=2.
> Is this correct?
> 
> -Dwext doesn't work at all. I must use -W madwifi.

Which version of madwifi driver are you using? I'm using -Dwext with
madwifi 0.9.3 and both ap_scan=1 and ap_scan=2 have worked fine in my
tests. I don't use hidden SSIDs (they are quite pointless from security
view point), so I'm not sure about the current madwifi status for them.

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