ifconfig hidessid not hiding SSID on 802.11b with PRISM 2.5 based card

[Niki Denev]

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