Can't connect to hidden SSID

dedwed dwedwe

Hello,
I am not able to connect with OMega2 to hidden SSID.
I know that already there are some topics with solutions for the problem but none of them works for me.
I have following setup on my router:

But Omega2 is not able to connect to it - unless I uncheck "Hide SSID" checkbox, making the SSID visible............

here is the settings inside /etc/config/wireless

config interface 'loopback'

config wifi-device 'ra0'
        option type 'ralink'
        option mode '9'
        option channel 'auto'
        option txpower '100'
        option ht '20'
        option country 'US'
        option disabled '0'

config wifi-iface
        option device 'ra0'
        option network 'wlan'
        option mode 'ap'
        option encryption 'psk2'
        option key 'APPASS'
        option ApCliAuthMode 'WPA2PSK'
        option ApCliEncrypType 'AES'
        option ssid 'Omega-XXXX'
        option ApAuthMode 'WPA2PSK'
        option ApCliSsid 'MY_SSID'
        option ApCliPassWord 'MY_PASSWORD'
        option ApCliEnable '1'

config wifi-config
        option ssid 'MY_SSID'
        option encryption 'WPA2PSK'
        option key 'MY_PASSWORD'

Any ideas or ways to solve the issue?

Himura Kazuto

Same problem. Even when I connect, then hide SSID, it disconnects

Calvin So

yes you can connect hidden SSID by changing option ht from '20' to '20/40'

Calvin So

correction, should be '20+40'

dedwed dwedwe

@Calvin-So This does not help

cas

Reading almost everything posted on this so far and my own trial and error lead me to trying to use the bssid in addition to the ssid values.

Which works... sort of.
My wireless doesn't connect to the hidden ap on boot, but a simple edit of the /etc/config/wireless to change option ApCliEnable from '0' to '1' followed by:

uci commit
reload_config
wifi

results in it connecting fine. I still have to work out what is going wrong at boot, but thought I'd share this in the mean time while I work my way through the wifimanager and wifi scripts.

So if anyone wants to try this, you will first need to get the bssid by using aps like so:

# aps
WRTnode AP scaner.
Begin scaning APs, pls wait...
Finished.
APs available are...
ra0       get_site_survey:
Ch  SSID                             BSSID               Security               Signal(%)W-Mode  ExtCH  NT
11                                   3c:47:11:8b:fi:fi   WPA1PSKWPA2PSK/TKIPAES 86       11b/g/n NONE   In

#

Then add the bssid so that it appears in the config wifi-iface as option ApCliBssid and config wifi-config as option bssid alongside your other values. Mine look like this:

# uci show wireless | grep -i bssid
wireless.@wifi-iface[0].ApCliBssid='3c:47:11:8b:fi:fi'
wireless.@wifi-config[0].bssid='3c:47:11:8b:fi:fi'

Remember to change the ApCliEnable from '0' to '1' if it is currently '0', followed by:

# uci commit
# reload_config

Followed finally by:

# wifi
setting apcli
APCli use bssid connect.

And check if your interface has now come up:

# ifconfig apcli0
apcli0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 42:A3:6B:00:Fi:Fi
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:185941 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:134863 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:109980847 (104.8 MiB)  TX bytes:8482977 (8.0 MiB)

Daniel Petrie

@cas
I am not having luck with your suggestion. Could you post your whole /etc/config/network and /etc/config/wireless files (with changed passwords).

cas

@Daniel-Petrie Sure, but I'm not near that particular O2+ atm, so will post them in about several hours time [sorry about that :(]

cas

@Daniel-Petrie
Ok, here you go:

# cat /etc/config/wireless

config wifi-device 'ra0'
        option type 'ralink'
        option mode '9'
        option channel '11'
        option txpower '100'
        option ht '20+40'
        option disabled '0'
        option log_level '0'

config wifi-iface
        option device 'ra0'
        option network 'wlan'
        option mode 'ap'
        option encryption 'psk2'
        option ApCliAuthMode 'WPA2PSK'
        option ApCliEncrypType 'AES'
        option ApCliSsid 'XXXXXXX'
        option ApCliBssid '3c:47:11:8b:f1:f1'
        option ApCliPassWord 'xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
        option ssid 'XXXX'
        option ApCliEnable '0'
        option key 'xxxxxxxxxxxxx'

config wifi-config
        option ssid 'XXXXXXX'
        option bssid '3c:47:11:8b:f1:f1'
        option encryption 'WPA2PSK'
        option key 'xxxxxxxxxxxxx'

# cat /etc/config/network

config interface 'loopback'
        option ifname 'lo'
        option proto 'static'
        option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
        option netmask '255.0.0.0'

config globals 'globals'
        option ula_prefix 'fd1d:48c4:7633::/48'

config interface 'wlan'
        option type 'bridge'
        option ifname 'eth0.1'
        option proto 'static'
        option ipaddr '192.168.3.1'
        option netmask '255.255.255.0'
        option ip6assign '60'

config interface 'wan'
        option ifname 'eth0.2'
        option proto 'dhcp'
        option ipv6 '0'

config interface 'wwan'
        option ifname 'apcli0'
        option proto 'dhcp'
        option ipv6 '0'

Also check that the channel number shown by aps matches the channel in 'config-wifi-device'. I think that was important at the time.

Daniel Petrie

@cas
Thank you. I have it working now. When I isolate what the minimal parameter change is, I will post more information.
Cheers,
Dan