Re: Corporate Networks & Hidden SSID

[Grant Williamson <traxtopel gmail com>]

Thanks for the answer ...
one thing I notice which is odd, why does wpa enterprise not appear when 
I select "Create a new wireless network", but does in "Conect to Other 
Wireless Network"?

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:10 +0100, Grant Williamson wrote:
>   
> > Dan,
> >     testing on our corporate eap/tls systems, i.e. what I originally 
> > tested on, setting this to AP_SCAN 1 it connects.
> > Why is the default in most cases then AP_SCAN 2, just trying to figure 
> > out problems it will cause switching it to 1.
> >     
>
> It should only be set to 2 when:
>
> 	 * - The wireless network is non-broadcast or Ad-Hoc
> 	 * - The wireless driver does not support WPA (stupid drivers...)
>
> in your case, since the net is hidden, NM will do what wpa_supplicant
> suggests, and set ap_scan=2.  There's a note in the wpa_supplicant
> config file that says that if you're using ap_scan=2 then you _MUST_
> match the pairwise and group cipher parameters to exactly what the AP is
> set to.  That's the bit NM doesn't allow you to set right now, whic
>   
> will change in 0.7.  So if your AP isn't set to "TKIP CCMP" for both of
> those then it may not work with NM.
>
> Dan
>
>   
> > Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >     
> > > If it's not too much trouble, would y'all mind stripping that long log 
> > > excerpt from the bottom of future messages in this thread?
> > >
> > > Every message is producing a digest now, which kind of defeats the 
> > > point of getting the digest...
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
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