Problems with WPA2/AES and Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g)

[Tim]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 00:14 +0200, Robert Scheck wrote:
> Finally there was another problem, but this seems more general: I was
> forced to turn on SSID broadcasting at the access point otherwise no
> connect to the WLAN was possible. It looks like the software is only able
> to handle responses from SSID broadcast requests. Strange is, when SSID
> broadcasting is disabled it works when using KNetworkManager. Hum? Okay,
> I'll ignore this so far. Just enabled SSID broadcasting and reduced the
> signal strength. 

For what it's worth, not broadcasting the SSID is *not* a security
improvement.  It is, however, a cause of networking problems, and you've
just found one of them.

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