Hi, I was the one who originally reported about enabling SSID fixing it, although I don't know if it can be reproduced in every case.
I can reproduce this problem with two routers, both a Thomson Speedtouch 585 modem/router and a Netgear WGT624 router. My wireless card is a Netgear WG511T PCMCIA card. (Atheros chip - Mad wifi driver). OS is Feisty with all updates installed. (the problem is happening for more than 20 days I am using Feisty in my laptop now - none of the kernel or nm-applet updates seems to have fixed it) - if I have SSID broadcast off, the network manager applet will not connect. I enter all the info it tries to connect ~30 secs and then gives up. Changing the security from None to WEP and WPA does not work. If I disable network manager and manually configure wpa-suppliant.conf and /etc/network/interfaces I can connect fine. - if I enable SSID broadcast in the settings of my router, nm-applet works just fine just as it was working in Edgy. It asks for a WPA password and connects. Please feel free to contact me for any more info. -- Centrino wireless networking does not connect (herd 5) https://launchpad.net/bugs/89493 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
