One thought, to add to the mix... How about designing the best solution for the 'deployment / school' situation, then offering a method for users to optionally 'tweak' the setting for their preference / situation. Like a sugar-control-panel option to 'show mesh enable/disable scan option'... then a "enable scan" or "disable scan" will appear in 'Neighborhood View'... as selectable items under "Mesh 1", "Mesh 6", and "Mesh 11" icons.
In a school/deployment situation, does the laptop always want to search for Meshes... even when the student is at home? Oh, sorry.. there were several ideas there melded into one.... :-) -Ixo On 3/2/08, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Thomas Tuttle wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I just upgraded to joyride-1738, and the new feature that rescans for > > networks when the laptop wakes up is causing a lot of trouble for > > me. I > > often leave long-running connections such as IMAP or IRC open. Before > > the change, the laptop would wake up, the card would reassociate, and > > there was a good chance that my connection would still be up. > > After the > > change, the connections are almost always dropped, even if I just > > turned > > the laptop off for a few seconds. > > > > What would be *great* is if it waited 5 or 10 seconds, tried the > > existing connection, and then restarted scanning *if* it wasn't > > working > > anymore. The lag isn't that bad, and it makes the experience where > > you > > just closed the laptop a minute ago and are still on the same network > > better. > > > The problem we have is the following: > > A student is using the laptop away from school/infrastructure, and is in > simple mesh mode. In this mode, all service discovery and collboration > is multicast. The student puts their computer to sleep (by closing > the lid) > and goes to school. Once they arrive at school, the last thing we want > is for their laptop to try to use simple mesh --- it trashes spectrum > and makes > the school network not work, plus they won't see any of their friends > that > are (properly) connected through the school presence service. > > If we naively followed your suggestion above, the laptop would of course > discover that the previous network state (simple mesh) was fine, and it > would never discover that there were centralized services available. > > This reply is intended to spark discussion about better fixes. > > For example, how about only rescan when the laptop was in simple mesh > mode when put to sleep, or if an attempt to reestablish the existing > connection > fails ? > > wad > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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