Re: Corporate Networks & Hidden SSID

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 1/24/07, Grant Williamson <traxtopel gmail com> wrote:
> Dan,
> are there any plans for Network Manager to handle hidden essid's?
> i.e. using wpa_supplicant I can connect with the following config.
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> eapol_version=1
> network={
>                 ssid="MBI"
>                 scan_ssid=1
>                 eap=TLS
>                 key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
>                 pairwise=TKIP
>                 group=WEP104
>                 identity="traxtopel mbi com"
>                 ca_cert="/etc/eap/cacert.pem"
>                 client_cert="etc/eap/key.pem"
>                 private_key="/etc/eap/key.pem"
>                 private_key_passwd="whodareswins"
>                 eapol_flags=3
> }
>
> With networkmanager it never connects(the only way I have ever managed
> to connect was to quickly do a iwconfig eth0 essid MBI and then fingers
> crossed it worked once).

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I don't think the issue is a hidden SSID, I think the problem is using
EAP with WEP which I don't /think/ NetworkManager supports at this
time.  Dan, correct me if I am wrong.