Needing the SSID broadcast turned on is actually fairly common, but it can be related to the driver being used. For example, I've got a Dell Truemobile 1300 and if I use ndiswrapper, it is perfectly happy with the SSID broadcast turned off. However if I switch to the bcm43xx driver, it works MUCH better with SSID broadcast turned on.
For what its worth, there really isn't an issue with having the SSID broadcast turned on. There is no significant security advantage to not broadcasting. If security is a concern, you're better off focusing on things like encryption (WEP/WPA) or locking down IP addresses to specific MAC addresses.
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