Bug 210362 - FreeBSD Installer cannot identify hiden wireless network.
Summary: FreeBSD Installer cannot identify hiden wireless network.
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: wireless (show other bugs)
Version: 10.3-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-wireless (Nobody)
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Reported: 2016-06-17 22:48 UTC by Drew
Modified: 2018-12-09 03:21 UTC (History)
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Description Drew 2016-06-17 22:48:32 UTC
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.
Comment 1 Andriy Voskoboinyk freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-09 03:21:41 UTC
Fixed in r309716.