On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are two networks with the same SSID around here I suppose. The > symptoms: sometimes I have no problems connecting to the network, but > sometimes network-manager tries to connect and then asks for the keys, > and in such case it is virtually impossible to connect even after many > tries — unless I come physically close to the wireless router, in > which case the connection has a high chance to succeed. In any case, > when eventually connected, the connection works fine from the first > location as well; it does not drop, and does not stall. dmesg shows > different AP macs in the successful and unsuccessful case, even though > nm always shows a single network with this name. > > Is it possible to specify the connection in nm such that it always > chooses the right network? I tried to specify a MAC in the connection > dialog (I am not sure whether this is supposed to be my the network > card mac or the AP mac), but then nm does not connect to such network > and creates another connection when I choose the network from the > applet.
The BSSID entry is what you need to use. See the tooltips of text entry widgets to get more information what MAC and BSSID fields do. Tambet _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
