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Some wireless clients cannot detect my unbroadcast Aironet AP Mr_Huang 07-03-08
Posted by Aaron Leonard on July 16, 2008, 2:53 pm
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~ > Some of the wireless clients (Windows XP Pro with built-in Intel
~ > ProSet G Wireless client) cannot detect my unbroadcast Aironet AP.
~ >
~ > It finally worked after I have updated the Intel driver and the ProSet
~ > Software which downloaded from HP support web.
~
~ Use the Intel ProSET instead of the braindead Windows built-in supplicant.
~ The Windows supplicant has problems connecting to hidden SSIDs,
~ especially when broadcasted SSIDs are in range of the scanning client.

Supposedly this problem with XP WZC is fixed with
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917021
(see "Changes for nonbroadcast networks") for SP2 and hence inherently in SP3.

Aaron

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