Re: Connecton on APs with weak signal quality

[Aloisio <aloisiojr gmail com>]

Oooww

Anybody know answers to some of these questions ??? I use nm is these
conditions in most part of time...

Thanks again
Aloisio


On 11/1/06, Aloisio <aloisiojr gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've realized a big difference between nm and wpa_supplicant (command
> line) behavior when I trying to connect on weak signal wireless
> conections. Actually this environment has also hidden SSID and more
> than one physical AP. I don't know yet where is (are) the problem(s).
> What I know is that wpa_supplicant launched by command line can always
> connect and using nm I need a lot of tries to get success. Sometimes I
> give up...
>
> I know that wpa_supplicant tries "without stop" to associate to known
> scanned SSID and to "scan_ssid=1" SSIDs and wpa_supplicant spend some
> tries to get success. My questions are: how many times nm tries to
> connect to one AP when I choose on item on a list or when a use "other
> wireless connection" ? Can nm tries more times if needs (i.e. if
> detect fail by timeout or if detect that signal quality is low)?
>
> Thanks!
> Aloisio