Xubuntu & WPA

[Knapp]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:29 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 08/26/2008 06:10 PM, Devon Harding wrote:
>
>>
>> I do have wpa_supplicant installed & now that I'm looking at it, its
>> also an issue with WEP (hidden SSID).  It will not connect either.  When
>> I run iwconfig, it shows two adapters, wifi0 & wlan0.
>>
>> btw, I'm using an Intersil Prisim 2.5 Mini-PCI card.  The driver is
>> hostap_pci.  I also tried WCID and got the same connection issue.
>>
>> -Devon
>>
>>
>>
>
> There are issues with hidden SSID's. I can't recall the exact bug
> reports just now, but if you search launchpad you are sure to find them.
>

I have been doing a lot of WIKI and network manager learning this
month. I have found 2 things related to this. First, one site said
that hiding your ssid is outdated and does nothing for your security.
It can be found somehow by oher programs even when hidden. The second
bit is that network manager can really mess up the settings it saves.
The fix is to just find the directory for your ssid and do a rm -R
<ssid>

I just did a "locate <ssid>" to find them. If you have surfed to more
than one you might need to remove more of them. This was for a xubuntu
system.

Also you must to a connect to other systems to connect to a hidden
one. Just in case you did not know that.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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