[ale] wpa_supplicant on hidden SSIDs

[agcarver+ale at acarver.net (Alex Carver)]

On 9/25/2013 06:05, James Sumners wrote:
> It really depends on the card. Some lspci/lsusb details would help.

It's a Linksys WPC54G version 2 (using the Texas Inst. ACX 111 chipset)
PCMCIA card.  It worked in XP using the normal Linksys drivers (as long
as I checked the option in the config that says connect even though the
SSID isn't broadcast).  I picked up the ndis drivers from the install
disk to use with ndiswrapper.

If the AP is not broadcasting the SSID, debugging info on wpa_supplicant
shows that it scans over and over again but, because it can't see the
SSID, it skips the AP (the AP's MAC does show up in the scan list).
Once I turn on SSID broadcast, wpa_supplicant connects.


Here's lspci -v for the specific card:
02:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless
Interface
        Subsystem: Linksys WPC54G v2 802.11g Wireless-G Notebook Adapter
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at 30020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Memory at 30000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper


> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>> Has anyone ever gotten wpa_supplicant to connect to hidden ssids?  I
>> just got the wireless card on the laptop installed (ndiswrapper) and was
>> trying to connect to my AP which has broadcast disabled.  I couldn't
>> connect no matter what I tried (ssid_scan=1, ap_scan=1 and 2).  It
>> connects fine with broadcast enabled so the card is working.