Re: Connecting to a hidden ESSID via LEAP now works.

[Grant Williamson <traxtopel gmail com>]

I have been checking it out with ...

svn co 
http://svn.gnome.org/svn/NetworkManager/branches/NETWORKMANAGER_0_6_0_RELEASE

Philip Culver wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the svn (anonymous) location for the 0.6.x stable branch.  I
> would like to pull this locally to try out the recent changes.  I looked
> around and only saw instructions for the trunk (0.7.0).
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 15:10 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>   
> > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:40 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >     
> > > Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:
> > >
> > >       
> > > > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 14:12 -0500, Andrew Duggan wrote:
> > > >         
> > > > > Dan etal, Thanks, as of NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.8.svn3235.fc8 I can now 
> > > > > connect to a hidden ESSID network via LEAP that previously just would 
> > > > > not connect.  Using a bcm4311 v1 b43 from kernel-2.6.23.12-99.fc8.  
> > > > > Thanks again -- great job.
> > > > >           
> > > > Yep; thanks to Linville's quick backport and update of the scan
> > > > capability patch to Fedora kernels, this should now work better.
> > > > There's one case where NM forgets to merge the before and after networks
> > > > when you're connecting, which is fixed in SVN and coming to F8/rawhide
> > > > in the next update.  There have been a few other hidden SSID problems
> > > > reported (not finding the hidden AP automatically for example) that I'm
> > > > tracking down, but the situation should be much improved for those
> > > > people who are running scan-capability-patched kernels.
> > > >         
> > > Will these NM fixes get into 0.6 for F7 as well?
> > >       
> > I've already committed them to 0.6.x stable branch, and at some point
> > this month I'd like to gear up for a 0.6.6 release and push that to F7
> > too.  Looks like either F7-testing kernels, or soon-to-be-release
> > F7-testing kernels in the 2.6.23 range will have the scan_capa patch
> > (it's already in package CVS).
> >
> > Dan
> >
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