Re: Corporate Networks & Hidden SSID

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 13:38 +0100, Grant Williamson wrote:
> 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"?

That is odd, and is likely a bug.  Obviously it's impossible to do
anything 802.1x in adhoc networks...

Dan

> 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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