On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 13:15 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: > David Abrahams wrote: > > Oh, here's some additional data: > > Each time I have rebooted with an ethernet cable attached and then > > disconnected the cable, it asked me for my keyring password almost > > immediately and connects to the network in a few seconds. I think raw > > wpa_supplicant is faster, but it was close. > > > > On the first reboot: > > > > I reconnected the cable and it connected back to the wired network > > > > I disconected the cable and it tried to connect to the wireless > > network, but failed. I couldn't get it to connect wirelessly > > thereafter, even by explicitly choosing the network > > > > On the second reboot: > > > > I reconnected the cable and it connected back to the wired network > > > > I disconected the cable (possibly slightly more quickly this time) > > and it apparently failed to notice. The icon in the notification > > area still showed me connected to the wired network. I couldn't get > > it to connect wirelessly thereafter, even by explicitly choosing the > > network, *AND* I couldn't get it to notice the wire being removed > > either. > > > > On the third reboot, I started with no network cable connected, but > > the experience was the same as with the first reboot, starting where I > > disconnected the cable. > > > > So this _is_ different from the old version of NetworkManager in that > > it's more consistent. The old version would often connect repeatedly > > if you were willing to wait long enough. In this version, the > > timeouts seem to be shorter. > > > > > This is actually good since it is something you can repeat, can you run > Network Manager in debug mode again and post the outputs when you go > through the steps you went through above? > > > > Also, there's a new checkbox in the wireless network config, "fallback > > on this network." What does that mean? > > > > > I don't know but I will try and grab the version in CVS tonight and find > out unless Dan or Robert can answer this.
Fallback networks as implemented by Robert are tried in succession if NM can't find a network to connect to by scanning. So it may work well for the non-broadcasting case. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
