Re: WPA connection/reconnection timeouts

[Groug <groug free fr>]

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 12:17 +1000, Andrew Baumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I sent something like this previously to the list, but it seems it never made 
> it there; trying again...
> 
> I'm using NetworkManager 0.6.4 (from Fedora) in a WPA network. For some 
> reason (probably intermittent interference), wpa_supplicant often takes a few 
> attempts before it succeeds at key exchange with my access point. Also, the 
> connection will occasionally drop out, triggering wpa_supplicant to 
> reassociate and rekey.
> 
> Unfortunately NM has compiled-in timeouts of 20 seconds for the initial 
> connection and 8s for any reconnection. These are far too low, causing most 
> connection attempts to fail, or if a connection succeeds it will be 
> terminated the first time it drops out.
> 
> I've rebuilt with limits of 40s and 30s respectively, and this works well for 
> me (no more failed connections or dropouts). I can see why you might be 
> hesitant to increase these timeouts by default, but can I suggest that they 
> be set in a configuration file?
> 

That would be great indeed. And by the way, you say you've rebuilt the
NM: have you rebuilt a RPM with rpmbuild or just the configure/make
install stuff ? I'm asking because rpmbuild fails with NM on fc5,
returning a totally weird error:

error: Package has no %description: NetworkManager-gnome

I've checked the specfile and *of course* didn't find anything that
could explain this. I've already asked on this list but got no clue
about this...

Regards.

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-gr0n6-

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