so you want to break roaming behavior that works since more than a decade this way on all OSes ?
WLANs with the same name and same encryption but multiple APs are a pretty standard thing, no OS i know distinguishes between the physical APs in such a setup (and Ubuntu desktop doesn't either today (and never did)) I would find it personally very annoying if i suddenly had multiple entries for my existing wlan show up on my laptop (not knowing which one is the basement or the second floor AP) and would suddenly have to manually pick the right AP while going up and down the stairs ... i dont get why we need to break established and "quasi stanrdard" behavior all of a sudden ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to indicator-network in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1395088 Title: APs with same SSID and support for the same encryption should be merged into one on the network list Status in indicator-network package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: as you can see in the "iwlist scan" output below i have two APs in my house, one supporting WPA2 only, the other supporting WPA (enabled for some weird old wifi HW) and WPA2 ... while nm-applet merges these two into one entry in the network list on various ubuntu desktop devices here, the phone shows one entry per AP. this behavior should be brought in sync (preferably by making indicator-network also only show one entry in this case) wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:23:69:B9:C2:E0 ESSID:"grawert.net" Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Mode:Managed Signal level=-76 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:54 Mb/s Extra:Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54 IE: Unknown: DD770050F204104A0001101044000102103B00010310470010002369B9C2DE002369B9C2DE02313535102100104C696E6B73797320627920436973636F102300085752543136304E4C1024000876312E30302E30311042000231351054000800060050F2040001101100085752543136304E4C100800020084 IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : CCMP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Cell 02 - Address: C0:3F:0E:CA:36:26 ESSID:"grawert.net" Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Mode:Managed Signal level=-46 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:54 Mb/s Extra:Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54 IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK IE: Unknown: DD0E0050F204104A0001101044000102 IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-network/+bug/1395088/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
