hidden SSID with Berlios driver 0.10 (was Re: (no subject))

Hi Graeme,

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Graeme Merrall wrote:

> Downloaded the 0.10 version and all seems well. I also noticed the line
> about using hidden SSID's which I had turned on. Turned that off and it
> helped as well. Since I did this with the new version of the driver I'll
> just say both solutions worked equally well :)

Which line about hidden SSID do you mean? IMHO hidden SSID should work for
0.10 (some documentation error?). Could you please try with hidden SSID
configured and if that fails, post the syslog (with debugs as before).


> Now my wlan is wide-open but thank heaven for WEP and think concrete
> walls.
Hidden SSID gives little additional protection - the wardriver
may wait to capture an AssociationRequest, which contains the SSID
unencrypted, and can even trigger it by a fake DisassocReq, if any
client was associated with the AP.

> Thanks for your help and apologies for the lack of subject line.
Changed the subject.