Re: Connect Button

["Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart gathman org>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 19:03 -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
>   
> > Dan Williams wrote:
> >     
> > > 0.7 needs both
> > > the SSID and a scanned BSSID to complete a connection, so just trying to
> > > connect with the SSID will fail.
> > >   
> > >       
> > Hopefully, I'm missing some context on this.  Our public library has a 
> > hidden SSID for some reason.  To connect with NetworkManager currently 
> > (Fedora 8), we just enter the SSID in "connect to other network".   
> > Hopefully, "just trying to connect with the SSID" will still work in 
> > some fashion.
> >     
>
> "Connect to other..." doesn't require a seen AP, but you really don't
> want to have to do that every single time.  Should only have to happen
> once, at which point NM caches the BSSID and life proceeds as normal...
>   
Sounds good.  Just checking that little use case.
> What wifi card and driver?
>   
Tested with Broadcom/ndiswrapper/F8, RTL8080(pcmcia)/F8, zd1211rw/EL5, 
zd1211rw/F8.  (I hate Broadcom, but USB/pcmcia replacements are 
inconvenient, and miniPCI replacements are hard to find.)

Unrelated, but since you're asking about drivers:
I have an rt73usb dongle, but that driver doesn't work.  Drops USB 
connection after a minute.  Lots of people on google with same problem.  
I did report in Fedora bugs.  Still broken in F9.  Possibly related to 
usb polling with a kernel parameter workaround to try.