Wpa And Hidden Ssid

Problem

You have trouble associating with a wireless access point when:

1 - you are using wpa-<whatever> (wpa_supplicant); AND
2 - your access point hides the essid

Solution (worked for me!)

Open the wireless adapter config file (found in /etc/sysconfig/network) and add (or edit) this line:

WIRELESS_AP_SCANMODE='2'

The config file name will start with ifcfg- and the next part of the file name will identify the wireless adapter. (It should be fairly obvious)

Paul

Thanks, I will try! B)

Many thanks, your hint solved my headache of months!

Many thanks, your hint solved my headache of months! [/b]

Great B)

I'm glad it helped someone!

Paul

I have the same problem. Here is my /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 file. I added the scanmode line and still I cannot connect when the ESSID is hidden, but as soon as I broadcast it, it is fine until I hide it again. Any suggestions?

BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
BROADCAST=''
ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=''
IPADDR=''
MTU=''
NAME='RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI'
NETMASK=''
NETWORK=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='auto'
USERCONTROL='no'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_AP_SCANMODE='2'
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='psk'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CA_CERT=''
WIRELESS_CHANNEL=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY_PASSWORD=''
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_EAP_AUTH=''
WIRELESS_EAP_MODE=''
WIRELESS_ESSID='HA21'
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0=''
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_PEAP_VERSION=''
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'
WIRELESS_WPA_ANONID=''
WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY=''
WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD=''
WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='MYPSK'

put your question in the wireless forum, this is for tips,tricks & tweaks. it won't get much attention here otherwise

Andy