The following reply was made to PR kern/31295; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/31295: iwi(4) does not associate with AP
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:22:45 +0100

 This turns out to be a limitation of iwi(4); namely that it will not 
 associate with an AP which does not broadcast its SSID.
 
 Enabling SSID broadcast cures the problem.
 
 Though this is, arguably, still a bug...
 
 Cheers, Steve