> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Robo Blaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Limit on number of APs? Some way to force-rescan? > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:13:50 -0400 > > > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 14:38 -0500, Robo Blaster wrote: > > Thanks for the info on scan behaviour. I was worried, because my > > list wasn't changing. It may be that the madwifi driver's scan > > routine usually finds the same ones. > > > > > Wireless scans are never complete or reliable on _any_ platform. > > > > I meant to stress the comparison of using the AP_SCAN parameter > > in wpa_supplicant. Using wpa_supplicant directly, when AP_SCAN is > > 2, I get associated almost immediately. When it is 1, > > wpa_supplicant looks for a match in the truncated scan results, > > and almost always fails. I certainly don't blame NM if the > > wireless card doesn't return the AP I want, but maybe NM could > > fallback to AP_SCAN=2 if the first scan list returned to > > wpa_supplicant does not have an SSID match. > > I actually consider the AP_SCAN stuff in wpa_supplicant to be pretty > much broken. There is just no good rule on when to use 1 or 2, plus > these bits of wpa_supplicant more or less duplicate what NM is doing > already. I forget the specifics of which drivers do and do not work > with AP_SCAN 1 or 2, but it seems to me we should usually be using > AP_SCAN = 2. In fact, we used to use AP_SCAN = 2, but changed it in Feb > to 1 because madwifi had problems with that. Yay for madwifi. > > Dan >
I'm using madwifi-0.9.1 and wpa_supplicant 0.5.4, so maybe this doesn't work for everybody, but I recompiled NM with ap_scan=2 and it works great. Now I quickly connect to APs I couldn't see before and even the ones I used before are faster. It's fantastic. I understand if you don't move to this right away due to other considerations, but this madwifi user recommends it. -Robo -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
