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tut

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Registered: 2008-09-08

Posts: 12

wlan with hidden ssid

Altough it has already been postet (e.g. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49124 or http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39482) I will post again, because the solution of simply broadcasting the ssid doesn't work for me. I'm not the admin, so I have to accept that the ssid is hidden and find out some way to connect to the network.
I'm using iwlwifi-3945-ucode, the network has wpa-psk and my config files are:
wpa_supplicant.conf:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="mySSID"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="mypassphrase"
}

wireless config:

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE="eth1"
SCAN="yes"
ESSID="mySSID"
SECURITY="wpa-config"
WPA_CONF="/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
IP="dhcp"

The configuration works with ssid broadcastet. Do I have to change the line scan_ssid or SCAN="yes".
I hope someone here can help me with this.