From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Wade Berrier <wberrier@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: realtek 8185
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:32:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192775568.14897.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bbbeeccd0710182154h5b42384cxb4bd49f5159504eb@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 22:54 -0600, Wade Berrier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/18/07, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:13:00AM -0600, Wade Berrier wrote:
> > > On 10/17/07, Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 17 October 2007 18:52:28 Wade Berrier wrote:
> > > > > Another thing I'm noticing is that I can't connect to an 802.11b open
> > > > > network with a hidden essid.
> > > > >
> > > > For those, you should specify the channel, and bssid in one iwconfig command,
> > > > and then ssid in another command. Everything needs to be specified for hidden
> > > > networks. Never tried connecting to hidden networks with network manager so I
> > > > dunno if that's suppose to work.
> > >
> > > I've been able to connect to this hidden network via network manager.
> > > >From a users experience, I enter in the essid from the "Connect to
> > > other wireless network" dialog, and it connects. I'm not sure how
> > > networkmanager makes the connection between the essid and the ap.
> >
> > If anything, I usually find that I can connect to the hidden networks
> > using iwconfig but _not_ with NetworkManager. FWIW, mac80211 will
> > send probe requests for unknown SSIDs when trying to associate.
>
> I can connect to this same network with an intel 2200. The network
> comes up in the networkmanager list, but without and essid.
>
> Is a hidden network the same thing as a network that doesn't broadcast
> the essid?
Yes.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I'm not really sure how this relates to the problem
> > you are having. Perhaps probe responses are being lost somehow?
>
> I'd assume it was driver related since I can with the intel 2200, but
> not with the realtek 8185. I'm not sure; I guess I'd have to do some
> more digging.
>
> Wade
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[not found] ` <200710171938.48414.flamingice@sourmilk.net>
2007-10-18 17:13 ` realtek 8185 Wade Berrier
2007-10-18 17:41 ` John W. Linville
2007-10-19 4:54 ` Wade Berrier
2007-10-19 6:32 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2007-10-19 6:38 ` Dan Williams
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