8.04 networking seems awfully broken.

[Derek Broughton]

Leif Gregory wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:18:50 +0000 (UTC)
> Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm a bit baffled, what's the 30-minute wait for?  I've
>> selected a network and entered a password, why wait for 30
>> minutes?
> 
> I agree. I use my laptop to connect to four different wireless
> networks (my own, my parents, my sister-in-laws, and my wife's office)
> which are all WPA. The only one I ever have problems with is my wife's
> office because it doesn't broadcast the SSID so I have to do a manual
> config, but I still never have any problems with WPA and they always
> connect up right away.

That's a design "feature".  It seems to be one of those odd stances Linux
developers are always taking - "since there's no security benefit to hiding
SSIDs, we won't gracefully handle them".  
-- 
derek