Hi, On 10/18/07, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:13:00AM -0600, Wade Berrier wrote: > > On 10/17/07, Michael Wu <flamingice@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 17 October 2007 18:52:28 Wade Berrier wrote: > > > > Another thing I'm noticing is that I can't connect to an 802.11b open > > > > network with a hidden essid. > > > > > > > For those, you should specify the channel, and bssid in one iwconfig command, > > > and then ssid in another command. Everything needs to be specified for hidden > > > networks. Never tried connecting to hidden networks with network manager so I > > > dunno if that's suppose to work. > > > > I've been able to connect to this hidden network via network manager. > > >From a users experience, I enter in the essid from the "Connect to > > other wireless network" dialog, and it connects. I'm not sure how > > networkmanager makes the connection between the essid and the ap. > > If anything, I usually find that I can connect to the hidden networks > using iwconfig but _not_ with NetworkManager. FWIW, mac80211 will > send probe requests for unknown SSIDs when trying to associate. I can connect to this same network with an intel 2200. The network comes up in the networkmanager list, but without and essid. Is a hidden network the same thing as a network that doesn't broadcast the essid? > > Unfortunately, I'm not really sure how this relates to the problem > you are having. Perhaps probe responses are being lost somehow? I'd assume it was driver related since I can with the intel 2200, but not with the realtek 8185. I'm not sure; I guess I'd have to do some more digging. Wade - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
