Good Morning, I spent an enjoyable Sunday installing OpenSUSE 10.1 (remastered dvd edition) onto my laptop, (Acer 5024), and was pleased to see how much worked by default. Don't worry, this is not going to be yet another thread on how my wireless networking doesn't work at all .... after extensive use of Google and the mailing list archives I finally managed to get the wireless in my laptop to talk using a combination of ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant. There is one thing with it though where I do require a little assistance. Wireless is currently working ok but I have had to set my access point to broadcast its network name (ESSID?). If i don't do this then wpa_supplicant will not find and authenticate into it, (although it will quite happily attach to any unsecured wireless network in range!). Does anyone know the option, or combination of options, which, I guess, need to go into wpa_supplicant.conf in order to be able to turn the ESSID broadcast off on the access point and still be able to connect to it? I have tried setting ap_scan=2 as per the comment in the default file using the copy of wpa_supplicant configured by Yast under /var/lib but this didn't seem to work. Many Thanks Tim -- Tim Hempstead thempstead@gmail.com