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choogi
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 Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject: wpa_supplicant and non-broadcasting ssid's |
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| I just got wpa_supplicant to work with iwl4965 for both wpa and wep when networks broadcast ssid, but my university's network doesn't broadcast it for security reasons. wpa_supplicant won't connect to the network for me so I end up having to connect manually which sometimes won't work either. I've tried setting scan_ssid=1, ap_scan=1, and ap_scan=2. Is there something else I need to do? Thanks. |
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Lemmens
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Location: European Union (BE)
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:15 am Post subject: Re: wpa_supplicant and non-broadcasting ssid's |
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| choogi wrote: | | ...my university's network doesn't broadcast it for security reasons. wpa_supplicant won't connect to the network for me so I end up having to connect manually which sometimes won't work either. |
My wireless router also does not broadcast ssid for the same security reasons. This configuration of my wireless card does the job for me:
| Code: | /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
psk="<my very secret password>"
scan_ssid=1
ssid="<my essid>"
}
/etc/conf.d/net
dns_domain_lo="<my essid>"
modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
associate_order="forcepreferred"
wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi"
preferred_aps=( "<my essid>" )
config_ath0=( "dhcp" ) |
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choogi
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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Does that allow you to connect to other networks as well or does it force you to connect to the preferred ssid?
EDIT: It didn't work for me =( after adding the stuff you had, wpa_supplicant just associates with the strongest network that broadcasts the ssid. |
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choogi
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay so I think my problem has to do with the fact that my university has multiple access points broadcasting the same hidden ssid. If I use iwconfig to manually associate my card with one of the access points, then I can get a connection (but only for about 15 minutes and then it dies for some reason). This is the only way that I can connect so far. |
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