{"id":207,"date":"2008-04-20T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T13:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/connecting-to-non-broadcasting-ssid-networks-with-ipw2200\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T08:59:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T13:59:04","slug":"connecting-to-non-broadcasting-ssid-networks-with-ipw2200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/connecting-to-non-broadcasting-ssid-networks-with-ipw2200\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting to non-broadcasting SSID networks with IPW2200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been having problems connecting to a wireless network that does not broadcast its&nbsp; SSID. (A so-called &quot;hidden&quot; network.) I am using an Intel IPW 2200 802.11b\/g mini-pci wireless card that uses the ipw2200 wireless module.<\/p>\n<p>I found that reloading the ipw2200 module before attempting to connect to the network fixed my problems (but only if I put a pause between the unload\/load\/connect sequence).&nbsp; I use wifi-radar to manage my wireless connections, and was able to call my unload\/reload script using its &quot;before&quot; connection command.<\/p>\n<p>The script is simply:<\/p>\n<pre><strong>sudo rmmod ipw2200<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre><strong>sleep 1<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre><strong>sudo modprobe ipw2200<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre><strong>sleep 1&nbsp;<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>This does add two seconds to the connection time, but this is not a terrible penalty to pay as without the above pause the connection would usually only work about 25% of the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been having problems connecting to a wireless network that does not broadcast its&nbsp; SSID. (A so-called &quot;hidden&quot; network.) I am using an Intel IPW 2200 802.11b\/g mini-pci wireless card that uses the ipw2200 wireless module. I found that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/connecting-to-non-broadcasting-ssid-networks-with-ipw2200\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}