WPA needs SSID broadcast?

[Andy Green]

Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> 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.

wpa_supplicant is new to me, but I noticed wpa_passphrase eats the ssid 
along with the PSK to generate the magic key.  Maybe try to regenerate 
this with a null ssid in wpa_passphrase and see if it is happier with no 
incoming ssid.

-Andy
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