[ale] wpa_supplicant on hidden SSIDs

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Wed Sep 25 09:05:14 EDT 2013


It really depends on the card. Some lspci/lsusb details would help.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> Has anyone ever gotten wpa_supplicant to connect to hidden ssids?  I
> just got the wireless card on the laptop installed (ndiswrapper) and was
> trying to connect to my AP which has broadcast disabled.  I couldn't
> connect no matter what I tried (ssid_scan=1, ap_scan=1 and 2).  It
> connects fine with broadcast enabled so the card is working.
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