Gutsy and Atheros - now working

[Thomas Olsen]

On Tue 30 October 2007 22:44, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Actually, while using Network Manager I'm not sure you _can_ turn off
> broadcasting.  I don't subscribe to the devel list anymore, so it may have
> changed, but it didn't used to connect to hidden ssids, and I got the
> impression the developers were against letting it, on the grounds that
> hiding an SSID is poor security.  It is, but if the network you have to
> connect to has no broadcast SSID, it's not helpful to tell the users to
> complain to the sysadmins.
> --
> derek

You tur off broadcasting this SSID in the router/AP, not in NetworkManager. 
And NM has a menu-entry to connect to other networks and that is used to 
connect to a network that doesn't broadcast its SSID. It least it was like 
that last time I used NM.

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Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
	Thomas Olsen


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