notben wrote: > Has anyone been able to establish a connection to a hidden network. > I did some searching and reading and found one person who tried, but > didn't post if he was successful. I read one of Steen's replies that it > was not supported in one of the scripts. > > I am using 1.14d and an Edimax EW-7811UN. I can connect to the network > fine when it is not hidden, but I prefer not to broadcast my ssid. > > Other than that, I love the build. I have a hifiberry and the picore > build is so easy and works great. > > -ben
Unfortunately the wifi.sh used in Tiny Core is not designed for hidden ssid. It depends on the iwlist command to create a pick list of APs that can then be saved to a local wifi.db to allow for future automated associations with the -a command line option. If iwlist can't see the ssid (the intent of hidden ssid), then there is nothing to choose. If you want to hack, there are two experiments to try: 1) if you can get a connection to an existing "visible" ssid, then save the connection. Take a look at /home/tc/wifi.db for the format. While I haven't tried it myself, it may be as easy as entering the ssid of your hidden AP in to wifi.db manually. 2) look at the /usr/local/bin/wifi.sh script for the "guts" of how the logic works. You can try to hack your own startup with the iwconfig, associate, udhpc, ifconfig, wpasupplicant tools. This can get to be a PITA to maintain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mcdudeabides's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57765 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
