Bug 258978

Summary: KNetworkManager doesn't find hidden-SSID networks
Product: Network Management Reporter: Josef Spillner <spillner>
Component: generalAssignee: Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: lamarque
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.9   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Josef Spillner 2010-12-06 08:29:33 UTC 
Version:           0.9 (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

I've manually configured a wireless connection to SSID Foobar which is not shown in the list of connections by default. It then appears in the connection list as "insecure" network with unspecified signal strength despite being a WPA2 connection with good signal. It does not appear in the list of configured profiles in the tray menu and therefore cannot be activated. So it seems to me that hidden-SSID networks are not supported and I need to continue using my handcrafted wpa_supplicant wrapper script with scan_ssid=1 :(

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-02-19 16:03:36 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 209464 ***