I asked about this some time back and didn't see any thing other than a follow-up "is this a good idea" from Dan. I'm wondering if there are any others having similar issues...
I have one customer site that has a ton of laptops. Some are sedentary and hard-line connected but their wireless card are active. It appears that some of them are set to the same ESSID as the local Infrastructure-mode wireless network but they are set to AdHoc mode. Further, the APs are setup to hide their ESSIDs. When I run 'iwlist eth1 scan', I see one AP (Mode:Master) with ESSID:"<hidden>" and one or more other machines with ESSID:"foo" and Mode:Ad-Hoc. At this point, the AP's power level is lower. I blew away all of the previous /system/networking/wireleww/networks entries in gconf. I fired up NetworkManager and nm-applet. I see no entries in the applet menu for wireless networks. I told it connect to the "foo" network and it always uses the AdHoc network. I looked into hacking the code myself to have it ignore AdHoc networks and think I may have done it but I still can't connect to the AP. I added a couple lines in the nm_device_wireless_process_scan_results() routine. Basically, it adding all ADHOC APs to the outdated_list just like it's doing for those where ap_time exceeds 180 seconds ago. After installing this change, I tried to reconnect. Using `watch iwconfig eth1`, I now see the card set to Managed mode and connected to the MAC address of the AP. When I run tcpdump on the interface, I see the BOOTP request but no response. I am also seeing some non-IP traffic and VRRP packets from one of the routers over here. I should add that I am able to connect to a couple APs at home, a few other customer sites, the coffee shop, my mechanic's waiting room, etc. I don't recall any of them coming up <hidden>. Is this the problem. I've read that hiding ESSIDs is not approproate but I have no control over that here. I'm speding more and more time at this customer so the lack of wireless connectivity is a pain. It's also embarassing as the lone Linux guy. When I boot windows on this machine, I can connect fine! Grrrrrr...... -- Paul Dugas, Computer Engineer Dugas Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 404-932-1355 522 Black Canyon Park http://dugas.cc fax: 866-751-6494 Canton, GA 30114 USA -- Onsite at GDOT W.Annex 404-463-2860 x199 _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
