On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 13:51 +0200, Matthieu Baerts wrote: > On lun, 2013-10-14 at 19:49 +0200, Matthieu Baerts wrote: > > On lun, 2013-10-14 at 12:20 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 18:39 +0200, Matthieu Baerts wrote: > > > > Hello Dan and thank you for this answer, > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 09:41 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > This problem is most definitely a supplicant issue. The supplicant > > > > > roams too aggressively, even if the currently associated access point > > > > > has a very good signal. We've patched that in Fedora, but as you > > > > > indicate, your kernel wifi driver is also not working correctly when > > > > > reporting signal strength. > > > > > > > > Thank you for these details! > > > > Do you know if it's possible to configure wpa_supplicant (via NM or not) > > > > to be less aggressive but without having to patch it? (or to force it to > > > > not switch between access points?). > > > > > > > > I know that we can force wpa_supplication to try to connect to a > > > > specific access point (by using the mac address) but it's not what I > > > > want: I don't want to change the settings each time I want to connect to > > > > a different access point of this network. > > > > > > Correct, you want to keep roaming enabled, and that's not possible > > > (obviously) when locking to a specific access point. There a few things > > > that will make this better: > > > > > > 1) Apply the following patch to your wpa_supplicant, which will make the > > > problem much better but > > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/wpa_supplicant.git/tree/rh837402-less-aggressive-roaming.patch > > > > > > 2) Apply the following commit to your NetworkManager packages, which > > > requests that the supplicant scan for roaming a little less often: > > > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=dd9cf657ef1f9d5909dad2eb697098715325fecf > > > > > > 3) Wait for some upstream changes to the supplicant, which will include > > > *some* form of the above patch, as well as one I posted upstream to > > > request the supplicant not to roam as a result of an information-only > > > scan that NetworkManager periodically does. > > > > Thank you for these patches, I'll have a look asap! (but I'm not sure > > I'll be able to test it soon) > > Thank you, I confirm that it's much better with these patches! > > > > Obviously all these fixes depend on the kernel driver also reporting the > > > signal strength correctly... > > > > Yes... > > Due to this problem with my drivers, I'm using this setting: > bgscan = simple:30:-65:9000 > > But do you have any idea how I can use this setting without patching > each new version of NM?
NM uses -65 already in NetworkManager 0.9.8.4 and later. Which drivers are you using again? If they are in-tree ones, it would be much easier to get them fixed. That combined with the changes for periodic scanning not causing a roam (which was just applied upstream to wpa_supplicant) should help immensely. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
