Re: Setting access point MAC address?

2006-07-22 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 16:48 -0400, Robert Love wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 14:36 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote: Would it make sense for NetworkManager to lock to an access point? I know the real problem is that we have the same ESSID without the bridging you'd expect with that setup, but

Re: Setting access point MAC address?

2006-07-22 Thread Pat Suwalski
Dan Williams wrote: I don't think it should; but this may be affected by ap_scan value. In any case, we shouldn't consider roaming by the driver as association loss, and neither should wpa_supplicant. What seems to happen is that iwconfig shows that it continues hopping even if wpa_supplicant

Re: Setting access point MAC address?

2006-07-22 Thread Robert Love
Pat Suwalski wrote: What seems to happen is that iwconfig shows that it continues hopping even if wpa_supplicant (and NetworkManager for that matter) are not running. So, I think it's the driver. But I don't know that it's consistent across all drivers. Yah, the drivers have issues,

Re: Ubuntu, NM, nm-applet, bcm43xx and acerhk on Acer Aspire SOLUTION (partial):

2006-07-22 Thread Mike
What also works is the following (on Ubuntu Dapper, up to date packages): 1) Boot up with NetworkManager, nm-applet and acerhk running 2) Disable networking from the right-click nm-applet menu 3) run this: sudo modprobe -r bcm43xx; sudo modprobe bcm43xx; echo 1 /proc/driver/acerhk/wirelessled 4)