Re: Scannning

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 00:12 +0000, yelo_3 wrote:
> It is simpler: Sorry I was not clear. I was not connected, and I was moving around to search for the correct AP (there is only one for students)
> 
> In this case and in the case that wireless was off, scanning is not fast enough

Ok, good.  In this case, we can make NM scan more frequently quite
easily, because you're not connected to anything.  The problem with
frequent scans is really only when you're connected.  Sorry for all the
misunderstanding :)  We may still need to back that down somewhat, since
active scanning does take battery power on a laptop, and not all drivers
support passive scanning.

So now that all this is sorted out, we can do a few things:

1) scan quickly after a GUI event like app menu dropdown, right now that
doesn't happen quite as quickly as we'd all like

2) change the max scan timeout while disconnected to be somewhat lower

Dan

> ----- Messaggio originale -----
> Da: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
> A: yelo_3 <yelo_3 yahoo it>
> Cc: NetworkManager-List <networkmanager-list gnome org>
> Inviato: Luned�9 marzo 2007, 1:04:16
> Oggetto: Re: Scannning
> 
> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 23:45 +0000, yelo_3 wrote:
> > The use case is when I move around, in my university! There are different access points in different places.
> > Or simply when I decide to enable wireless and before it was disabled
> 
> Do they have the same SSID?  Doesn't NetworkManager disconnect you when
> you move out of range of one SSID?  When you're disconnected, NM should
> scan more frequently.
> 
> So is the case that you are _still_ in the coverage of SSID A, but you
> have now moved into the area SSID B (A and B overlap), but you want to
> switch off A move to B immediately when B is in range?
> 
> Dan
> 
> > ----- Messaggio originale -----
> > Da: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
> > A: yelo_3 <yelo_3 yahoo it>
> > Cc: NetworkManager-List <networkmanager-list gnome org>
> > Inviato: Luned�9 marzo 2007, 0:40:36
> > Oggetto: Re: Scannning
> > 
> > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 16:50 +0000, yelo_3 wrote:
> > > > In my experience when I click the applet new networks begin showing up
> > > > within 30 seconds.  This is with an IPW2200 and IPW3945, my Atheros
> > > > card sometimes takes longer.
> > > 
> > > it is not always true, with my ipw2200 sometimes I have to wait around 2 minutes
> > 
> > What's the use-case here again?
> > 
> > Are you suspending, going home, and waking the laptop up and the AP is
> > not showing up in the menu?
> > 
> > Or are you turning on an access point and expecting it to show up?
> > 
> > Or are you walking from one access point coverage area to another?
> > 
> > Or?
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >     
> > 
> >     
> >         
> > ___________________________________ 
> > L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: 
> > http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	
> 
> 	
> 		
> ___________________________________ 
> L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: 
> http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
> _______________________________________________
> NetworkManager-list mailing list
> NetworkManager-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list