On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 02:49:49PM -0700, Base Pr1me wrote: > Two questions: > > 1) In the heuristics for deciding on the AP, what is used to decide the > best AP.
Signal strength with which beacons from the AP were received is the final differentiator. AP selection happens only when a scan ends (run 'ifconfig iwm0 debug' and 'tail -f /var/log/messages' to see it live). Note that a switch happens if our current AP drops below a fixed threshold. It does not happen if another AP shows up which is also above that threshold, because then we'd ping-pong between "good enough" APs all the time. > 2) Does the background scan eventually timeout completely requiring a > reboot? No reboot is required. I don't know what happened on your system to cause this. > Just attached to an AP from an ethernet connection and can't get it to > change, period. So, need to know if I have to keep rebooting in to the > future for testing. Sorry, but this descriptive statement does not help. In order to fix a bug, I need *data* I can rely on. I'll be doing more testing myself today. I hope I'll be able to reproduce the problem (I am hopeful because apparently several people have seen it).
