On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:45:10 -0500, Sven wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:40 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:31 -0500, Sven wrote: >> > my last 10c: could NM not just monitor the "Link Quality" of the >> > connection (as in /proc/net/wireless) and trigger a scan if that changes >> > dramatically? (i guess also with a timer, since if the link quality is >> > low anyway every change in LQ will be "dramatic" ...) >> >> Unfortunately, the link quality is not reported uniformly by drivers. >> Some only give you the signal level in dBm, many give you noise in dBm >> (so at least one could do a signal-to-noise ratio for some idea of >> quality), some drivers give you a quality but no maximum quality, and >> some drivers actually do the right thing. Furthermore, many drivers >> don't report the correct maximum quality/max rssi for your particular >> chipset. Its really not good to rely on anything quality related at >> this time. > > understood. i guess it's hard to find a solution that fits all... > especially with all these different cards and drivers and... > > i guess i would really really like to be able to stay connected to the > ap, i.e. be able to stop the scanning, since i'm usually in one spot for > a long time... and the constant disconnecting (even for a short time) is > really annoying. any chance to have the scanning optional? > > Sven
maybe it's possible to implement a "hidden" preference in gconf to supply a scan interval or even prevent scanning. i'd like to prevent nm from scanning when i'm at home 'cause i know there is only one access point! bye stefan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
