Hi, On Freitag, 24. August 2007, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:54, Johannes Nohl wrote: > > > > The adhoc network with enabled SSID interferes with the
> > > You're saying, for example, you have a SSID (hidden) of Net1 and a > > > SSID (open) of Net1 in the same room? > > > > That's what I meant. I want to connect to the hidden SSID (it's > > infrastructure or managed mode) but NetworkManager tries to connect to > > the open SSID (it's an adhoc - computer to computer network). > > Personally, I think it is lame that there's two networks with the same SSID > in the same proximity. > > Change one and your problem is solved. If only it were that simple ... In the scenario that he is describing he (or anybody else) has no control over this. In theory there should be only one wlan network with a hidden ESSID. In reality there are some users with mobile devices that *want* to connect to that network but by mistake instead of associating with the existing network create their own (same ESSID) ad-hoc network. The worst part about this is that they don't even know what they did, so it's no use having a "manager" decide that all ad-hoc networks must be disabled again since the people that would need to do that aren't even aware. I have seen this myself at a conference. Once this happens, new people trying to (correctly) join the network have a good chance to connect to the wrong (ad-hoc) network if they can only specify the ESSID but not the connection mode (infrastructure vs. ad-hoc). > > This is disappointing... > > I agree. You need to chat with whomever set that up. I don't really think > it is as much a software problem as a management problem. Unfortunately not. Greetings from Stuhr hartmut -- Hartmut Meyer, EMEA NTS Business Development Project Manager SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Volker Smid, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg T: +49 4221 5848182 - M: +49 179 2279480 F: +49 4221 6894714 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------- SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 - Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux
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