WPA needs SSID broadcast?

Jurgen Kramer gtm.kramer at inter.nl.net
Thu Apr 27 19:21:18 UTC 2006


I finally moved my wireless connection from WEP128 to WPA-PSK now that
NetworkManager supports it out-of-the-box in FC5. Although WPA works, it
only does so when a enable SSID broadcasting. Is this normal for WPA?
I'd really like to disable SSID broadcasting again.

This is with my laptop with a Intel IPW2200 and a Netgear DG834G
wireless router. I've also seen the same behavior when I tried using WPA
with a US Robotics router.

Jurgen









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