[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#409076: WLAN with no hidden ESSID

[Reinhard Tartler]

Bernhard <bewoern at gmx.de> writes:

> Hello, Reinhard
>
> With NOT hidden ESSID, the option wireless-essid is not necessary in
> /etc/network/interfaces.
>
> With hidden ESSID, the option wireless-essid is necessary.
> Otherwise, the connection to my access point is not established.

Aha. That's an interesting fact.  You can however try to play a bit with
the 'ap-scan' and 'scan-ssid' parameters. This behavior is pretty driver
dependent.

It seems to me that we cannot do much else than documenting this fact in
the wpasupplicant package documentation. Do you agree here?


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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4