Re: [Madwifi-users] Netgear WAG511 on RedHat 9.0

[Sam L. <sa...@er...>]

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 03:56 pm, Andrew Findlay wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:41:43PM -0700, Peter Antypas wrote:
> > I'm not sure that's a fact. I can confirm D-Link  G520s working with
> > non-SSID broadcasting APs. You may want to double-check.
> >
> > > There were two issues.  The first is that madwifi does not yet support
> > > AP's with SSID Broadcast turned off.  Apparently that code has not yet
> > > been written.  So I turned on SSID broadcast in my AP.
>
> Interesting. I find that SSID broadcast is necessary to make my 3Com
> 3CRPAG175 card associate properly. Something odd going on here..

I've had at least one other person say they could't associate unless their AP 
broadcast a non-null SSID.  I haven't investigated but the problem would be 
in the wlan code so feel free to dig in...

	Sam