Quoting dragoran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Dec 4, 2007 10:08 PM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Quoting Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 15:31 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> >> I'm sitting at the IETF, connected to the 802.11 network..
>> >> But as I wander from room to room, NM doesn't roam. It wont
>> >> jump from one AP to another as I move around the conference
>> >> facility. I'll get to my new room and find that I no longer
>> >> have any network and then have to wait for a full connection
>> >> sequence.
>> >>
>> >> What gives? I certainly don't have this problem if I just
>> >> let the driver/hardware roam on its own.
>> >
>> > Well, NM doesn't control roaming at all, wpa_supplicant and the driver
>> > do. Sometimes wpa_supplicant will push the BSSID down to the driver
>> > when connecting (not entirely sure when that is) and if the driver
>> > actually follows WEXT (which lots don't) that would cause the driver to
>> > lock to that single BSSID and not switch. That bit is highly driver
>> > dependent. It looks like wpa_supplicant will only do this when it has
>> > previously timed out authentication with the station but tries again
>> > (like it should). It then passes the BSSID down to the association code
>> > which tries to lock the card to that BSSID specifically.
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> I'm using the iwl3945 driver. I DO see some authentication timeouts,
>> which is really weird.. Sometimes to the point where it wont even
>> successfully authenticate to the card at all and I have to reset.
>> Very frustrating.
>
> that might be because the card is doing a scan at that time.. there is
> a patch posted upstream (linux-wireless) that should fix this by
> delaying scans while authenticate
Do you have a URL to the patch? Or a URL to a Red Hat / Fedora Bug?
Thanks,
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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