[talk] OpenBSD on iBook G4

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 02:53:08PM -0400, George Rosamond wrote:
> On 11/01/16 13:45, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:13:13PM -0400, Robert Menes wrote:
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> and getting Wifi
> >> completely working (I installed the necessary firmware packages but can't
> >> seem to get
> >> ifconfig to see any ESSIDs).
> > 
> > One thing that I've found, at least with the iwn drivers is that they don't
> > work with a hidden WPA2 network.  (Someone on daemonforums had a similar
> > experience).  Not knowing your situation, I don't know if that's relevant.
> 
> IIRC, hidden networks are not part of the 802.11 standards...
> 

Which doesn't help when at a non-tech friend's house who has a Linksys
router hiding the network by default and they don't want to touch it. :)


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