Hi,
I am not able to establish wireless connection on my wireless router if I choose "Do not broadcast SSID" setting on the router. I am using Opensuse 11.2 (KDE 4.3.4). Everything works fine if I choose to broadcast SSID, but it doesn't connect if the SSID is not broadcasted. The connection is managed by "NetworkManager". (Just for information, on Windows, by modifying connection settings, one can connect with "Do not broadcast SSID" setting turned on.) On Opensuse+kde-4.3.4, there is no option available with the "KNetworkManager" which allows to make connection when SSID is not broadcasted.
I don't know if this is opensuse specific problem, as I haven't tried any other distro for this. From googling I could gather that there is/was such a problem with other Linux distros like Ubuntu too. On a positive note, in a tutorial for wireless connection on linux, there was even this option where one could establish a connection when SSID is not broadcasted. This tutorial was on Fedora. So I guess that this isn't a linux specific problem, but its probably distro specific. Or maybe it could be that I have missed something here. I wonder why I can't find this option with Opensuse 11.2 (KDE - 4.3.4). Have I to install any additional packages? If anybody has any experience in this regard, do let me know.
Regards, Rajen.