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On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 05:55 -0400, Aaron Walker wrote: |
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> Does it support wireless devices that don't support essid scanning yet? |
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> I'm currently having to use baselayout-1.10.4 (which was removed from portage |
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> ages ago) as my BCM4306 802.11b/g chip (used via ndiswrapper) doesn't support |
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> essid scanning. |
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It should do. Basically if your card does not support scanning then you |
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have a few choices |
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1) Hard code the ESSID - this only works when you only use one AP |
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2) Hard code a list of ESSID's - this works fine as long as you only use |
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the AP's in the list. However, it's slow as it attempts to connect to |
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each in the specified order. |
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3) Use the ESSID "ANY" - this forces the driver to associate with an AP |
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that it chooses - you have no control over which one it selects. |
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If not, pester me in IRC so I can fix it. |
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Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> |
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