Comment 5 for bug 716832

I'm able to connect to a hidden N based SSID w/ a TaylorPeak card running Maverick w/ linux-firmware version 1.38.4:

$ dpkg -l linux-firmware
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii linux-firmware 1.38.4 Firmware for Linux kernel drivers

$ lspci
[...]
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 6000 Series Gen2 (rev 34)
[...]

$ dmesg
[...]
[ 10.264228] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.168.5.2 build 35905
[...]