On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 11:15 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 18:21 +0200, Mathieu GELI wrote: > >> Hi list, > >> > >> I'm wondering wheter it is possible to force association on the 5Ghz band > >> when a hostpot provides both 2.4 & 5 even if on 2.4 the driver reports > >> a quality a little bit bigger. > > > > Not with 0.6.x, unfortunately. 0.7 will allow you to specify a > > particular band for a specific Connection. > > > >> I doubt NM does even see the 5Ghz channels. > >> The card is an Intel PRO Wireless 3945ABG > > > > It will see the channels, but if you have the same SSID on both bands, > > it's completely up to wpa_supplicant and the driver itself what band it > > decides to use for the association, since NM doesn't pass the channel. > > I'd guess that the card just reports scan results for the b/g band > > first, and therefore that's the BSSID that wpa_supplicant picks. > > > > Dan > > I've noticed that the iwl3945 driver doesn't even report the (a) band > results when the BSSID is the same on both (a) and (b/g).
That seems quite wrong from a driver point of view; it shouldn't be coalescing the networks that aggressively internally. Unless, of course, the A band radio and the B/G band radio of a specific AP have the same BSSID/MAC address... do they for you? Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
