Re: Setting access point MAC address?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 11:34 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Robert Love <rml novell com> writes:
> 
> > Yah, the drivers have issues, whether or not my hunch w.r.t. 
> > wpa_supplicant is correct.
> >
> > madwifi, for example, just blows up when it roams.
> 
> According to collegues of mine the madwifi driver works JUST FINE
> with roaming if you let the driver do its thing.  The problem
> appears to be that some combination of wpa_supplicant and/or NM
> think that it can roam better than the driver can, and THAT'S
> where madwifi has problems.

Ideally, we should usually be letting the driver decide when to roam.
That means ap_scan=2 everywhere.  We used to do that, I think, but then
madwifi-ng had major issues with that...

Dan