Re: FC5 NM/Madwifi "roaming" loses IP Address

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 15:05 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:

> I'm sitting here in Montr� at the IETF and noticed a really
> annoying problem.  When I wander from one room to another
> I have to roam from one AP to another, and NM seems to disconnect
> the network.  When I arrive at the other room I have to manually
> re-select the network and when it comes back up it's forgotten my
> DHCP lease and gets me a new IP Address.

Actually, I think Madwifi has a bug where it cannot roam.  Instead of
silently roaming to a new AP (a process that does not involve NM), the
driver loses association.

	Robert Love