Re: [Madwifi-users] Hidden SSID

[Ramon C. <cas...@in...>]

Hi Tim, all,


I *think* I may be having your same issue, but I need more testing (it
happened today). In fact, we have a set of a/b/g access points so the
infrastructure is used at the same time by "guests" with a public essid
and "perms" with a hidden essid + 802.1x (xsupplicant), certs, etc.

I'm using EAP+TTLS, and I manage to establish, authenticate and set the
keys, even once I got an IP from a pulic range (only perms get this) using
dhcp.... But I noticed that the association is lost and that the card goes
to scan mode... I've tried fixing b mode, fixing the ap, etc.. but no
luck. I thought it was related to xsupplicant until I read your message.
It needs further testing so I plan to investigate... For now I not even
able to give clearly the steps to reproduce much less a bug report...

Regards,
Ramon



On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Tim Nordell wrote:

> Anyone else have a wireless access point with a hidden ssid?  I don't
> know if it's the settings I have for my wireless card, but ... After a
> while, my wireless connection loses it's connection.  If I look in
> "iwlist scanning", it shows my wireless access point, but the "SSID"
> field is not there, as it normally is just after setting the ssid from
> iwconfig.  During this time, my card goes into a scanning mode.  If I
> reset the SSID(which still is shown correctly in iwconfig), it will pick
> up the WAP again, and it will show with the right SSID in "iwlist
> scanning".  Has anyone else experienced this?  Is this a configuration
> error on my part?  Or is this an unresolved drive issue?  Thanks.