RE: Automatic Connection not Working

["Jos Collin-ERS,HCLTech" <joscollin hcl com>]

>. I was however unsure what you meant by AP?

Access Point
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From: networkmanager-list-bounces gnome org [networkmanager-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Chris [cbaines8 gmail com]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 3:45 AM
To: Dan Williams
Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Automatic Connection not Working

On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 15:26 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 12:55 +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I start my netbook, my home network does not connect
> > automatically, I think this is because it is set to not broadcast. Is
> > there anyway to get around this problem, and if automatic connections
> > do not work for hidden networks why is the option still enabled?
>
> NM should be storing the BSSID of the hidden network if you've ever
> successfully connected to it.  Then, NM uses that to match up the hidden
> scan result (the AP still shows up, just with a blank SSID) with the
> real SSID.  Can you run:
>
> iwlist wlan0 scan
>
> when this happens to you and report the scan result for your AP?  Also,
> does this connection have the "Available to all users" box checked in
> nm-connection-editor?
>
> Dan

I can confirm that the connection has the available to all users box
ticked and I have attached the output of the command you included both
before I told it to connect and afterwards. I was however unsure what
you meant by AP?

Chris


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