On Tuesday 10 January 2006 16:02, Patrick Tracanelli wrote: > I have set hidessid option to an Intersil PRISM 2.5 based cart, acting > as hostap, and the ssid stills gets broadcasted, aparently. Other > FreeBSD systems and the Windows software supplied by the vendor can find > the SSID while scanning. > > I would like to know if hidessid should hide it in ordinary scans like > those ones, and how to test it better to see if ssid stills broadcasted > in the beacons, if it is possible (say, any debug option or tool). > > Thanks!
I think that for SSID hiding to work there is a need for the firmware on the card to support this. (at least on Prism2/2.5 hardware) Maybe your firmware does not support ssid hiding. You can try to update it. hth, --niki _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
