Windows XP SP2 wireless

[roofles]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone could help me out, I want to run my Linksys WRT54G with SSID broadcasting off, however windows xp sp2 does not seem to allow me to connect to such a network. I created a new connection with the proper SSID that I entered, but it won't let me connect? I know it is in range because the minute I turn off SSID it comes right up and I can connect. Anyone know of any solution to this? I have an orinoco silver 802.11b pcmcia card and according to documentation I should use windows to configure it, so I don't think it has its own management software.

 

[amdskip]

Eh, wireless is fussy. You may not be able to have the broadcast turned off. Shoot orinoco an email and ask them.

 

[stash]

I have the same router (well, WRT54GS) and I run XP SP2 on my laptop without broadcasting the SSID. Works fine.

 

[JackMDS]

If you use WZC you need the SSID On, WZC depends on it.

Switching SSID Off is Not really a security feature, when you use your Wireless your SSID would appear any way on any Network that is in your range. Rules of Physics applies to computers too. You can not block your Signal in mid Air unless you enclosed your property in a Faraday*** cage.

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*** Faraday, Michael. 1791-1867.
British physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1831) and proposed the field theory later developed by Maxwell and Einstein.