<div dir="ltr">Just name it "NSA_GOV" and use a long key :-)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I know it could be discovered by a determined person, it was more about<br>
obscurity than anything else. Let people aim for the "2WIREnnn" SSIDs<br>
floating around the area and skip over the blank one. I've got MAC<br>
filters on there, too (still not perfect but better) so I'll just leave<br>
it up for a little while. If I end up not using the wireless much I may<br>
just hide the SSID again.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On 9/26/2013 08:58, JD wrote:<br>
> An old wifi-security checklist <a href="http://blog.jdpfu.com/pages/wifi-security" target="_blank">http://blog.jdpfu.com/pages/wifi-security</a><br>
><br>
> Hiding SSIDs isn't really useful from a security standpoint and is known to slow<br>
> some network devices and prevent others from working at all on the "hidden"<br>
> network.<br>
><br>
> Any wifi sniffer **will** see the SSID, BTW.<br>
><br>
> On 09/26/2013 10:35 AM, James Sumners wrote:<br>
>> Oops, I overlooked the key detail of "v2".<br>
>><br>
>> There's really not much point to hiding the SSID. It is easy enough to<br>
>> discover. Put a good WPA2 key on it and move on.<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> That list shows the WPC54G versions 1 and 3 (Broadcomm chips) but not<br>
>>> version 2 (Texas Instrument chip). Searching through the site brings me<br>
>>> to this:<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/acx1xx" target="_blank">http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/acx1xx</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> I think that means I'd need to find another card if I want to avoid<br>
>>> ndiswrapper and hide the SSID on my AP since it doesn't appear that<br>
>>> support is forthcoming in any short time frame.<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 9/26/2013 05:33, James Sumners wrote:<br>
>>>> According to [1], the card should be supported _without_ having to use<br>
>>>> the ndiswrapper. You should be able to use the kernel provided b43<br>
>>>> driver. Then you would need a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file similar to<br>
>>>> the following:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> ~~~~<br>
>>>> ap_scan=1<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> network={<br>
>>>> scan_ssid=1<br>
>>>> ssid="HiddenSSID"<br>
>>>> bssid=68:7f:74:d3:a9:47<br>
>>>> proto=WPA<br>
>>>> group=CCMP<br>
>>>> pairwise=CCMP<br>
>>>> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK<br>
>>>> #psk="A secret key generated with wpa_passphrase"<br>
>>>> psk=c86cdc6991f8db814d426c404a5222ff2a957bb795bad2785e1ccd299a2278cb<br>
>>>> }<br>
>>>> ~~~~<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> However, it still might not work. I have a Netgear WNDA3100v2 that I<br>
>>>> tried to get working in the same situation a couple months ago. No<br>
>>>> dice. It's the first time I've messed with wireless in Linux in<br>
>>>> several years. I figured support would be better by now, but it's<br>
>>>> still abysmal.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> [1] -- <a href="http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices?highlight=%28wpc54g%29" target="_blank">http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices?highlight=%28wpc54g%29</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>> On 9/25/2013 06:05, James Sumners wrote:<br>
>>>>>> It really depends on the card. Some lspci/lsusb details would help.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> It's a Linksys WPC54G version 2 (using the Texas Inst. ACX 111 chipset)<br>
>>>>> PCMCIA card. It worked in XP using the normal Linksys drivers (as long<br>
>>>>> as I checked the option in the config that says connect even though the<br>
>>>>> SSID isn't broadcast). I picked up the ndis drivers from the install<br>
>>>>> disk to use with ndiswrapper.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> If the AP is not broadcasting the SSID, debugging info on wpa_supplicant<br>
>>>>> shows that it scans over and over again but, because it can't see the<br>
>>>>> SSID, it skips the AP (the AP's MAC does show up in the scan list).<br>
>>>>> Once I turn on SSID broadcast, wpa_supplicant connects.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Here's lspci -v for the specific card:<br>
>>>>> 02:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless<br>
>>>>> Interface<br>
>>>>> Subsystem: Linksys WPC54G v2 802.11g Wireless-G Notebook Adapter<br>
>>>>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11<br>
>>>>> Memory at 30020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]<br>
>>>>> Memory at 30000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]<br>
>>>>> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2<br>
>>>>> Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>>>> Has anyone ever gotten wpa_supplicant to connect to hidden ssids? I<br>
>>>>>>> just got the wireless card on the laptop installed (ndiswrapper) and was<br>
>>>>>>> trying to connect to my AP which has broadcast disabled. I couldn't<br>
>>>>>>> connect no matter what I tried (ssid_scan=1, ap_scan=1 and 2). It<br>
>>>>>>> connects fine with broadcast enabled so the card is working.<br>
>>>>><br>
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