On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 11:34 -0500, Jim Haynes wrote: > so dhclient fails at that time. Later by hand I told it > /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 essid "linksys" > and that makes it work and the output from iwconfig is ... > and I don't understand why I'm having to do this since the essid and the > frequency were already correct the first time.
To be honest, I don't have a good solution for that. Setting ESSID forces rescan and reassociation. Old cards have that logic in the firmware, but mac80211 relies on wpa_supplicant for roaming and reassociation. And once wpa_supplicant is involved, it has some strange interaction with dhclient, and I'm not sure there is any definitive way to do it in Fedora. If dhclient fails, it brings the interface down, and then wpa_supplicant cannot do anything. If I need a reliable connection that always starts and always reconnects, I use wpa_supplicant and static IP. I think there is still some work to be done on making wpa_supplicant, dhclient and Fedora scripts play well together. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ ath5k-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-users
