Bug 119800 - KInternet does not deal with hidden WLANs correctly (SSID broadcast turned off)
Summary: KInternet does not deal with hidden WLANs correctly (SSID broadcast turned off)
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: RC 1
Hardware: i686 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Joachim Gleissner
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Reported: 2005-10-01 09:53 UTC by Dirk Gorissen
Modified: 2008-09-02 18:07 UTC (History)
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Description Dirk Gorissen 2005-10-01 09:53:09 UTC 
My network had SSID broadcast disabled, KInternet shows this as "<hidden>" in  
the ESSID/Name column.  However when clicking connect Kinternet will try to  
connect to the network named "<hidden>".  Which of course fails... Running  
iwconfig confirms this.  This is not correct, KInternet should prompt me for  
the real SSID name.  
Cheers  
Dirk  
  
PS: using Open Suse 9.1 RC 1 using kinternet-0.72-3, HW: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo 
M1425 centrino laptop
Comment 1 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-10-06 13:38:52 UTC 
what mean you use Open Suse 9.1 RC 1? There isn't such a product. If this is a 
bug for a product older than SUSE Linux 10.0 close the bug as invalid!
Comment 2 Joachim Gleissner 2005-10-17 14:39:57 UTC 
I guess you mean openSUSE 10.0. And yes, there is currently no support for hidden ESSIDs in kinternet. Hopefully we will have a solution for this in 10.1 (may it be NetworkManager or something else).
Comment 3 Stefan Behlert 2006-02-22 18:31:02 UTC 
We now have NetworkManager, so I close this bug now. If the problem still exists with NetworkManager I would ask you to create a new bugreport, thanks.
Comment 4 Bugzilla Account Maintenance 2008-09-02 18:07:37 UTC 
Because the LATER and REMIND resolutions have been removed, the resolution of this bug has changed from LATER to WONTFIX. If this bug needs to be reconsidered, reopen it and set a future "Target Milestone for Fix."