Mackbook air can't find hidden network

I've been digging in the forums now and went over old threads that where too old so I decided to start a new one.
I've a MBA 13" and I have a wireless connection that is hidden with WPA2 -PSK with MAC filtering.
I've seen some people suggest not having passwords and just leaving it hidden, which is just crazy as you an have sniffers that can find hidden networks and I'm not prepared to give out free wireless fibre.
Has there been a solution to this? It would be nice if there was a tickbox that said "Can connect to hidden networks if saved in the list" as in dos box wireless settings.
Others have suggested keychain, what is this?

Have you tried clicking on the wi-fi icon on your top bar, and selecting "Join Other Network"? You will have to fill in all the info (network name, security info)
Also, click the "Remember this network" box.
***Also make sure your router is allowing the MAC address of your MBA wireless adapter. (found in About this Mac, System Information-More Info-System Report under the Wi-Fi subheader of Network)

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I have a problem with wicd after last night update from 1.6.2-1 to 1.6.2.2-1. I am using wireless with hidden ESSID on my linksys wrt54gl. After update to new version WICD can't find my hidden network when I go Network - Find a hidden network . My router stays hidden.
I downgrade to 1.6.0.2 as a temporary solution and it works with no problems. Does anybody else have a same problem?
Another strange thing that I didn't notice before. We have 2 computers (other one is imac with osx) that use wireless connection on same router. Yesterday I notice that my connection (wicd 1.6.2.1 on eeepc) is dropping now and then when other computer is using safari to surf?! Thats why I downgrade so low to 1.6.0.2. Any ideas?
Last edited by liticovjesac (2009-09-22 17:33:59)

liticovjesac wrote:I have a problem with wicd after last night update from 1.6.2-1 to 1.6.2.2-1. I am using wireless with hidden ESSID on my linksys wrt54gl. After update to new version WICD can't find my hidden network when I go Network - Find a hidden network . My router stays hidden.
I downgrade to 1.6.0.2 as a temporary solution and it works with no problems. Does anybody else have a same problem?
Especially this was fixed in 1.6.2.2, so this is very strange that it doesn't work anymore. Maybe you can try this, it was mentioned in another thread which helped some people:
thefatprecious wrote:I had an issue as well after the update. The first thing I tried was to make a backup of the old one and delete the /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf file. Restarted /etc/rc.d/wicd and let it create a new file. After that I setup my network profile again and haven't had an issue. You may want to give that a shot if you haven't tried that already...
liticovjesac wrote:Another strange thing that I didn't notice before. We have 2 computers (other one is imac with osx) that use wireless connection on same router. Yesterday I notice that my connection (wicd 1.6.2.1 on eeepc) is dropping now and then when other computer is using safari to surf?! Thats why I downgrade so low to 1.6.0.2. Any ideas?
That shouldn't be a problem which comes from wicd. wicd only uses wpa_supplicant stuff under the hood to connect to a network.
Daniel

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