This is NOT a driver issue. This issue is a result of NetworkManager expecting wireless drivers to be able to bgscan and be connected/responsive at the same time.
It is not a driver issue because there's probably nothing WRONG with the driver other than NetworkManager's false expectations of what it can do. Is there some RFC I do not know about that involves bgscans to not interrupt or interfere with current connections? How much do the first 2 letters of bgscan actually promise? The solution to this bug is and has always been to include a simple setting for enabling bgscans. We had a patch for this behavior a while ago, but some developer shot it down screaming something about "NM is not broken, your drivers are." Sure, my drivers are not that great, but I do not have many options, and it's a lot easier to write an if statement and settings panel than it is to write a wireless driver. This seems like a simple fix, and it's affected 3 of my (different) laptops so far. End user options are to use WICD, roll their own patched NM without updates, do it cmdline/conf files, or run Windows / Mac. I chose WICD. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Geert van Boxtel <ge...@gvb.hopto.org>wrote: > Same here, every 6 seconds, on Dell Studio 1558 Intel Core i5, Broadcom, > PCI device ID 14e4:4353, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS AMD64. Using WICD instead of > network manager does not help, turning off wireless security does not > help either (these were some tips I found). I am using the latest > Broadcom Linux STA driver (5.60.48.36). FWIW, I am totally unconvinced > that this is a driver issue because I have found reports of the very > same behavior using different hardware and drivers. > > -- > network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background scanning > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291760 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background scanning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291760 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs