Network manager can't connect to hidden ssid feisty fawn

[Marc Boivin]

Binary package hint: nm-applet

My router is running with a WPA encrypted, hidden, wireless network. Feisty Fawn Beta doesn't want to connect to the network. When the ssid is broadcasted, everything works fine, I can connect to it. I can even connect to the wireless network, then hide my wireless network, restart my wireless connexion, and it's going to connect. But if I start my computer with the ssid hidden, the network manager sees it, but it won't connect. dmesg doesn't give me any messages concerning either n-m or my wireless card.

I'm using the ipw3945 drivers.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 29 14:11:53 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux marc-laptop 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Andrew (keen101)]

I though someone else reported this, and they were working on it.

[Matthew Carpenter (matt-eisgr)]

I certainly hope so. This is a major inconvenience for corporate users, and this is an old bug. It impacts me as well. My own personal network I was forced to turn on broadcasts, but some networks I visit are outside my control.
My chief experience is also on a IPW3945.
Does anybody see this problem with non-IPW chipsets? or IPW2200?

[Witold Krakowski (wkrakowski-gmail)]

This bug is a duplicate of bug #50214. Please write your replies on #50214.
Also, please have a look at that bug, because there are quite few people with non-IPW chipsets there. There's also someone with IPW2200.
In addition, a more detailed description is there. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/50214/comments/15