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On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: |
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> On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular |
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> > access point to an interface or fail? |
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> > I have two AP's (each on a different ssid) to connect to so have two |
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> > wifi interfaces - unfortunately they are not equal so I want wlan0 to |
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> > connect to only one particular AP, and wlan1 to the other ... reliably! |
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> > I can manually force it to connect but invariably at the first glitch |
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> > they both end up connected to the same AP (usually the strongest which |
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> > is often not what I want :( |
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> > |
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> > BillK |
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> I don't know about wpa-supplicant, but I'm using open-rc and KDE, and |
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> KDE's systemsettings Network / Connections screen lets you restrict a |
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> network connection so a specific device. Not sure if this helps you |
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> any, but it would indicate that what you want is possible. |
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> Jack |
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Look at the example provided in: |
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/usr/share/doc/netifrc-0.7.3/net.example.bz2 |
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You can set a different ssid for each wireless NIC. The wpa_supplicant can be |
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set with credentials for the two APs only. |
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