> > I'll leave it up to you (collective you, not necessarily a personal > > you), how to best deal with associating with APs which are not > > broadcasting their SSIDs. I agree with you (personal you this time) that > > roaming around the country broadcasting those SSIDs does not seem > > particularly desirable. So how should the ability to connect to non SSID > > broadcasting APs be implemented? > > I would probably list, in network-manager, "I found (a) hidden > network(s)" and ask the user for an SSID to scan for actively at that > particular time, rather than trying to scan for all previously known > SSIDs even if those networks weren't hidden, as windows laptops (at > least those with Intel hardware but I haven't seen many others) seem to > do. Or it could remember the BSSID and when it encounters the BSSID again scan it actively to see if it still has the same (albeit hidden) SSID. My N810 behaves that way too, incidentally, it seems to first scan broadcast but if you then don't select a network quickly it starts scanning all networks directedly that it has previously saved. johannes
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