[Bug 210362] Installer cannot identify hiden wireless network.

[b***@freebsd.org]

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210362

Bug ID: 210362
Summary: Installer cannot identify hiden wireless network.
Product: Base System
Version: 10.3-RELEASE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: wireless
Assignee: freebsd-***@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: ***@gurkowski.com

During the installation process of the 10.3 release, the FreeBSD Installer was
unable to find my hidden wireless network during the network interface
configuration. I was told I should submit a bug report on this despite being
able to fix it through the wpa_supplicant.conf file afterwards due to it
potentially being a problem for newer users not experienced with manual
configuration.

The wpa_supplicant.conf that the installer created was empty so I solved the
problem by adding my network in this format:

network={
scan_ssid=1
ssid="mywpa"
psk="mypsk"
}

This information was NOT available in the handbook and I stumbled into it by
accident on a 3rd party blog here: https://srobb.net/fbsdquickwireless.html.

[b***@freebsd.org]

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210362

Drew <***@gurkowski.com> changed:

What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary|Installer cannot identify |FreeBSD Installer cannot
|hiden wireless network. |identify hiden wireless
| |network.

[b***@freebsd.org]

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210362

Andriy Voskoboinyk <***@freebsd.org> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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Resolution|--- |FIXED
Status|New |Closed
CC| |***@freebsd.org
See Also| |https://bugs.freebsd.org/bu
| |gzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2149
| |33

--- Comment #1 from Andriy Voskoboinyk <***@freebsd.org> ---
Fixed in r309716.