XO: Network Manager and hidden ESSID

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Wed Nov 12 00:36:37 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:30:58PM +0100, Ludek Smid wrote:
> Ludek Smid wrote:
>> it seems that there are problems with hidden ESSID on encrypted 
>> networks (WEB and WPA/WPA2).

It works fine for me.  On the other hand, I don't use NM, nor do I have
a device running at boot.  I have a wpa_supplicant.conf set up--hidden
networks require the line
scan_ssid=1

If you mean a problem with NM and that, well, there are advantages to
being a dinosaur. 


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