freebsd stable - Jan 2006 - ifconfig hidessid not hiding SSID on 802.11b with PRISM 2.5 based card

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!

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Patrick Tracanelli

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