On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 12:23 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > 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)
Whee. So drivers internally now have to differentiate a specific access point based on the (band, BSSID, SSID) tuple, which I'm pretty sure not many do. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
