Question about wpasupplicant...

[Andy Anderson]

I'm using Ubuntu Breezey Badger on an HP Pavilion zd8000 laptop with a
Broadcom 802.11b/g card built in.  I'm using ndiswrapper to use the Windows
driver provided by HP.  I'd been using an access point that supported only
WEP security, but recently upgraded to on that also supports WPA. 

I installed the wpasupplicant package and configured it with the help of
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=399787.  Everything is
working, but only if I leave SSID broadcast turned on at the AP.  Does
anyone
have this working with an AP with SSID broadcast turned off?  If so, what is
the secret?  I tried using "ap_scan=2" but that didn't work...

Here is my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file:


ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

network={
        disabled=0
        mode=0
        ssid="my_ssid"
        scan_ssid=1
#       psk="my_psk"
        psk=hex_version_of_my_psk
}


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