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bassvandijk
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Location: Haps, Netherlands
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 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject: No automatic connection to AP |
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I have to acces points:
one at home named "VANDIJKWLAN" (no WEP)
and one at the univeristy named "paswoord" (WEP).
At home I can connect to "VANDIJKWLAN" without problems
but when I'm at the university, the scripts don't automatically find "paswoord".
I manually have to uncomment the "essid_eth1..." line in my /etc/conf.d/wireless to force connecting to "paswoord".
/etc/conf.d/wireless | Code: | #essid_eth1="paswoord"
key_paswoord="********"
preferred_aps=( "paswoord" "VANDIJKWLAN" ) |
Why doesn't the preferred_aps=(...) work as expected?
I'm using the latest baselayout (1.11.9-r1) |
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UberLord
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe because it's not broadcasting it's SSID?
You have two options - you can map the MAC address to the SSID if it's broadcast or you can change the associate order - both of which are documented in /etc/conf.d/wireless.example |
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bassvandijk
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| UberLord wrote: | | Maybe because it's not broadcasting it's SSID? ... |
Thanks for pointing out a possible problem.
| UberLord wrote: | | ... or you can change the associate order |
I will try that tomorrow when I'm at the university. |
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