Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > 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?
Like I said, "the BSSID is the same on both (a) and (b/g)", so, yes,
my AP (a D-Link) has the same BSSID/MAC on both bands. I do not
believe there is any way for me to change this. In fact, it uses
the same BSSID/MAC on ALL three "interfaces" (802.3, 802.11a, and 802.11b/g)
> Dan
-derek
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