[ltp] Re: Managing network connections

Bret Comstock Waldow linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:32:03 +1200


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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:02, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Then, finally, bring up the network manually.  For me 'sudo ifup wlan0'
> is all it takes.  wpa_supplicant detects the network starting, does
> authentication, and everything just works.

A question - am I reading your example right to get the idea that this depe=
nds=20
on the SSID?  As a security matter, I told my router not to broadcast the=20
SSID, so random hackers in the neighborhood don't know it's there and don't=
=20
spend time trying to crack into it.

Cheers,
Bret

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