Re: EAP-FAST support and hidden SSIDs

[Steev Klimaszewski <steev gentoo org>]

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Jan wrote:
>>> also, just a thought on hidden SSIDs.  if the user configures
>>> NetworkManager with some SSIDs they are looking for, NetworkManager
>>> could/should probe explicitly for those as part of it's scanning
>>> process.
>> Actually, we do.  When you scan, the hidden ESSID's show up -- just not
>> with a name attached.  NM will map the MAC address from the scan to the
>> name, if you have successfully connected in the past.
> Hi
>
> as there are sometimes very large wireless networks in universities (i
> think there are more than 50 acess points on this campus) one has to
> manually connect 50 times to each of the access points to register the
> mac-adresses, right?
>
> wouldn't it be nice if nm would automatically test if previously
> configured essids work for new access-points that have not yet been
> registred? e.g. nm scans a hidden essid and tries all known essids of
> hidden networks?
>
> regards jan
>
I don't quite follow what you mean here, but I do think this sounds
like a bad idea, a lot of people don't ever change their setup from
the default factory settings, so you get in some areas and you are
surrounded by "linksys" on channel 6, which, is actually quite
annoying, because you don't know what one you are connecting to.
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