Wifi / hidden network

[59iosl30Member]

Hello!

I tried “GeeXboX rootfs for Rpi – Version 3.1” with wifi usb adapter “Edimax EW-7811Un (kernel module 8192cu)” and was unable to get any wifi connection.

As I tried the current developement snapshot “geexbox-devel-20131211-r16611.raspberrypi.tar.bz2” wifi has been working until first setup. But I cann’t get any connection when ssid was hidden. I tried scan_ssid=1 in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf but it doesn’t work. Does anybody know about this issue? Maybe is this a bug?

Btw: On my main OS it works with hidden ssid as well

Robert

[Warped RudiModerator]

Hmm, have not tried hidden networks, but using the same adapter here. Did you set HIDDEN=”true” in /etc/network ?

[59iosl30Member]

I have already tried this option and it doesn’t work. As far as I can see the option “hidden” isn’t for connecting to hidden wifi networks. It is for hidden the ssid in the connman connection profile file. So I thing there is currently no option for connecting to hidden wifi networks in the /etc/network* files. Or am I wrong?

But I can’t understand why the scan_ssid=1 in the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf apparently doesn’t work.
I have added these lines in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
ssid=”MySSID”
scan_ssid=1
psk=”MySECRET”
}

Can somebody help with this?

Merry chrismas
Robert

[tomlohaveModerator]

Did you restart the service wpasupplicant after your change ?
else
you can try with udhcpc instead of using connman.
You can then hack this more easily.

[59iosl30Member]

I restarted the wpa_supplicant but it doesn’t work. When I changed the backend manager from connman to udhcpc the wifi adapter doesn’t work at all. I can’t find any scripts for the udhcpc (like connman) in /usr/lib…

Does anybody have a working configuration with hidden wifi ssid?

Btw: I tried the last developer snapshot but it doesn’t boot so I changed it back to geexbox-devel-20131211-r16611.raspberrypi.tar.bz2 which works perfect except the hidden wifi ssid connection.

[tomlohaveModerator]

Indeed, udhcpc is not installed on your system (and does not exist for rpy, something we should add)

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