Re: Wi-Fi connection to a network with a hidden SSID

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From: Dan Lanciani (ddl_at_danlan.*com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: 24 Feb 2004 04:17:04 GMT

In article <#bcTMqk#DHA.548@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, SoonerAl@somewhere.net.invalid (Sooner Al) writes:
| I believe by design the WM 2003 Wireless Zero Configuration needs a SSID to be broadcasting...

Wireless Zero Configuration is bad (please, please someone tell me how to make
it go away :(), but I haven't experienced this particular problem--and I do
disable broadcast SSID on my access points. (I have a sniffer to be sure that
it is disabled. More specifically--since broadcast SSID means different things
to different people--I know that the SSID is not in the beacons and also that
the access points decline to respond to probes to the broadcast/null SSID.)

I wonder if the original poster could be having some problem with WEP keys?
It took me some time to realize that WZC profiles support only a single WEP
key whose index is selected by the key number. This is a real pain if you
use separate keys for traffic from and to the access point as I do (did).
All WiFi interfaces that I've used on PPC2002 allow all four keys to be
entered.

                                Dan Lanciani
                                ddl@danlan.*com

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