Re: NM waiting too long to collect AP scan results?

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Dan Langlois <dan clockwerk net> wrote:
> I have recently installed Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron, on my laptop.  This is
> my first exposure to NetworkManager.  For the purposes of this discussion,
> I always connect to the same WPA wifi AP, named "darknet".  At any given
> moment 2 or 3 other WEP APs, and 1 or 2 unprotected APs are visible, but
> I don't connect to them.  My wifi hardware is an Intel 4965agn using the
> iwl4965 driver.
>
> Occasionally I'd boot up to find NM disconnected.  When this happens, APs
> are visible, but not darknet in particular.  If I wait long enough (over
> 20min sometimes), eventually NM finds it and connects.  This is way too
> long to wait for an AP that I know is up and running and has a strong
> signal where I'm sitting.
>

Do you have Linux-backports-modules-hardy installed?   If I remember
correctly it has some updates to the IWL driver that help with scans.