From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 21:49:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A3C16A41F for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:49:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: from office.suresupport.com (office.suresupport.com [213.145.98.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D31B543D55 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:49:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: (qmail 47609 invoked by uid 1026); 10 Jan 2006 21:50:05 -0000 Received: from 213.145.98.14 by office.suresupport.com (envelope-from , uid 1004) with qmail-scanner-1.23 (f-prot: 4.4.2/3.14.11. Clear:RC:1(213.145.98.14):. Processed in 0.094679 secs); 10 Jan 2006 21:50:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 14.98.145.213.in-addr.arpa) (213.145.98.14) by office.suresupport.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2006 21:50:05 -0000 From: Niki Denev To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:50:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <43C3BE64.8080703@freebsdbrasil.com.br> In-Reply-To: <43C3BE64.8080703@freebsdbrasil.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601102350.37042.nike_d@cytexbg.com> Subject: Re: ifconfig hidessid not hiding SSID on 802.11b with PRISM 2.5 based card X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:49:08 -0000 On Tuesday 10 January 2006 16:02, Patrick Tracanelli wrote: > I have set hidessid option to an Intersil PRISM 2.5 based cart, acting > as hostap, and the ssid stills gets broadcasted, aparently. Other > FreeBSD systems and the Windows software supplied by the vendor can find > the SSID while scanning. > > I would like to know if hidessid should hide it in ordinary scans like > those ones, and how to test it better to see if ssid stills broadcasted > in the beacons, if it is possible (say, any debug option or tool). > > Thanks! I think that for SSID hiding to work there is a need for the firmware on the card to support this. (at least on Prism2/2.5 hardware) Maybe your firmware does not support ssid hiding. You can try to update it. hth, --niki