On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 11:42 -0400, Jose Aliste wrote: > Thanks for the info ... I just have one more question, see inline. > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:14 -0400, Jose Aliste wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I want to ask the question in the subject: > > Which AP is chosen when several are found for the same SSID? > > I ask this because I see three AP from mi wireless network > at my > > office. Two of them are "802.11G" AP are the other one is > only > > "802.11B" the signal for the slow one is better(it is > nearer) and NM > > always connects to it. However, I would like to NM to > connect to one > > of the others because even with less signal the connection > is > > better( 33mb/s against the 11mb/s of a b connection!). > > > At this moment, this is left up to the driver and the > supplicant. The > supplicant will apparently choose the AP with the best signal > strength > (since the scan results for the same SSID are sorted by signal > strength), but the driver can also choose to roam from AP to > AP based on > other criteria. > > > > > So, how can I tell NM to use the AP I need ? > > > You can try to set the BSSID in the connection editor to lock > it onto > one of the APs, but the driver has the discretion to ignore > that and > roam to an AP it thinks is better. We don't yet have the > facility to > lock to 802.11g at _any_ level of the stack, not just > NetworkManager. > > I am using NM 0.6 in Hardy and If I do as you or aaron said(keeping in > th bssid only the address of the ap I want), but it does not work. > However, If I go with manual config and I set the AP by using the > wireless-ap option in the /etc/network/interfaces then everything > works... Would I be more lucky in NM 0.7, I mean does NM 0.7 try to > force the AP? Btw wpa_supplicant is used even if I am not using WPA?
NM 0.6 doesn't have the capability to lock to a particular AP. NM 0.7 has the capability, but is still subject to driver behavior. Give NM 0.7 a shot and let us know if locking to your AP's BSSID works. Dan > Thanks > > José > > > > You could try setting the data rate, but that doesn't always > do what you > want since you can only set it to one value, and the card > would be > unable to rate-scale based on signal quality of the locked AP. > > In short, can't really be done, but this is only partly NM's > fault. > There's a lot more work in the stack from drivers, to WEXT, to > wpa_supplicant to make sure this works the way you want it. > > Dan > > > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list