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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:22:00 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: mac80211/iwlwifi + hidden ssids
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:47:27PM +0200, dragoran wrote:
> On 10/10/07, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:45:12AM +0200, dragoran wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I am unable to connect to a dynamic wep network with hidden ssid using
> > > iwl3945 and the lastest fedora 7 kernel (which should have very recent

<snip>

> > Fedora 7 kernels are a little behind (1-2 weeks behind wireless-2.6)
> > ATM, so it might be best to handle this at bugzilla.kernel.org.
> 
> Ok, will file a bug after collecting more data (wpa_supplicant output).

Ooops, make that bugzilla.redhat.com please!

> > F7 _does_ have the kernel patch to probe for hidden SSIDs when
> > associating.  What I've found with that patch is that manually
> > invoking the wireless tools yields satisfactory results, but that NM
> > (which afaik relies on wpa_supplicant) still tends to have problems.

> I know I also followed the thread on the nm list but it seems that I
> cannot even get a connection with wpa_supplicant started by hand.

<snip>

> the wpa_supplicant.conf I tryed:
> -----------
> # this driver requires ap_scan=2 mode when using hidden SSIDs
> # request driver to take care of AP selection and roaming
> ap_scan=2

<snip>

> the exact same config works with the old stack.... should I try to
> change the ap_scan value to 1 ?

I think that would be worthwhile.

John
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