Hi Stephen,
It might be worthwhile gathering more information about what's happening by
following the NWAM troubleshooting guide at:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/picea/troubleshooting/
and posting logs to me.
At a guess, I'm thinking that the signal strength is part of your issue here -
it's never constant with people and things around you constantly moving, or even
you moving. If the signal strength falls too low during a routine scan NWAM will
attempt to find a stronger network.
It might benefit you to change the scan interval using the command:
svccfg -s nwam setprop nwamd/scan_interval = 600 # 10 mins
svcadm refresh nwam
Unfortunately there isn't really any ordering to the "favourites" list, and it's
also not possible to lock to a specific network - you can only suggest it and
NWAM will attempt to use it.
It is also possible that your network driver is at fault, there have been some
drivers that seem to suffer under pressure, and disconnect, which means NWAM has
to try reconnect - and this might result in a different WLAN ...
I would suggest that you could try removing the WLAN you don't want from the
list if known networks using the GUI icon - that should also cause NWAM to go
look for another network...
HTH,
Darren.
Stephen Rex Gream wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I'm having an issue where I connect to two different wireless LANs while
> at uni. The one I want, let's call it the 'wanted' AP, will drop out and
> will reconnect on the other one. As I can't use the internet on the
> unwanted network (it's used to shell around internally), I'm constantly
> getting dropped off the 'net and having my work disrupted. Is there
> anyway to fix this? I remember having a similar issue in 2008.05, but I
> think I just deleted the known hosts file. This doesn't work anymore,
> unfortunately :( Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen
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