[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#409076: WLAN with no hidden ESSID
Reinhard Tartler
siretart at tauware.de
Thu Jul 5 07:09:08 UTC 2007
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?
--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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