Folk,
Sitting here at work, I notice that my wireless crashes about every two or three minutes. When I check my /var/log/messages, I see that I am roaming between two access points associated with the same ESSID that serves my whole building. Both access points are reasonably strong, but fluctuate a bit in signal strength.
The repeated and constant switching of access points is a big hit on my wireless performance.
I vaguely remember an option in NetworkManager to disallow roaming, but I can't find it.
Does anybody know how to stop this? I looked at the man page for nmcli, but didn't see anything about roaming...
Config --
Box: Toshiba Satellite L875D laptop, AMD A8-4500M w/ Radeon HD 7640G, RealTek wireless
uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 28 19:23:08 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Desktop: KDE 4.9.5
Thanks!
bill("reformed thread hijacker")o
I seem to have found an answer. I can indicate the BSSID. So, my steps are:
1) Connect to the wireless access point 2) Watch /var/log/messages to see the BSSID 3) Open up NetworkManager 4) Put in that BSSID (or simply choose it -- in one case, it populated automatically when I pushed the "select" button beside BSSID).
Since it populated automatically once I was connected and hit "select" it may be that I don't even have to look at /var/log/messages.
In any case, that seems to stop it from jumping around.
billo
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Bill Oliver wrote:
Folk,
Sitting here at work, I notice that my wireless crashes about every two or three minutes. When I check my /var/log/messages, I see that I am roaming between two access points associated with the same ESSID that serves my whole building. Both access points are reasonably strong, but fluctuate a bit in signal strength.
The repeated and constant switching of access points is a big hit on my wireless performance.
I vaguely remember an option in NetworkManager to disallow roaming, but I can't find it.
Does anybody know how to stop this? I looked at the man page for nmcli, but didn't see anything about roaming...
Config --
Box: Toshiba Satellite L875D laptop, AMD A8-4500M w/ Radeon HD 7640G, RealTek wireless
uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 28 19:23:08 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Desktop: KDE 4.9.5
Thanks!
bill("reformed thread hijacker")o
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