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raphix

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From: France

Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 56

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[netcfg]wpa2 and hidden ssid

Hello everyone,

In my new office, I have a WPA2 network with hidden SSID. I can't get it to work with net-auto nor net-profiles, while I can do netcfg <profilename> and get connected.

I tried to put SCAN=no in my profile config file, but it didn't change anything.

my wpa-supplicant.conf :

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel

ap_scan=1

network={

        ssid="home-network"

        psk=foo-bar-baz

}

network={

        ssid="work-wifi"

        scan_ssid=1

        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP

        eap=PEAP

        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"

        identity="foo"

        password="bar"

}

and the profile, in /etc/network.d/

CONNECTION="wireless"

DESCRIPTION="A wpa_supplicant configuration based wireless connection"

INTERFACE="wlan0"

SECURITY="wpa-config"

WPA_CONF="/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"

IP="dhcp"

My wifi card is intel 5100, with driver iwlagn.

I must have forgot soething somewhere... All ideas are welcome !

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vfork_0x00f

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Registered: 2006-08-28

Posts: 14

Re: [netcfg]wpa2 and hidden ssid

similar problem here

Gosi

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2010-02-25

Posts: 103

Re: [netcfg]wpa2 and hidden ssid

You have to set the essid manually if you are using a wireless lan with hidden essid.

To achive this add PRE_UP="iwconfig wlan0 essid myessid" to your configuration.

NeoXP

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From: MS Matrix

Registered: 2009-01-09

Posts: 206

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Re: [netcfg]wpa2 and hidden ssid

Don't know which version you are runnig, but with latest netcfg version "net-auto" is not working anymore.

Read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Net … omatically to connect automatically.

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