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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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> Sent: Monday, April 4, 2022 8:05 PM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point |
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> On 4/4/22 23:12, 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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> >> |
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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 |
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> >> which is often not what I want :( |
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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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> Hi Jack, unfortunately its a headless, wifi only system which is why getting openrc to behave is important! |
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> BillK |
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The bit where specifying the SSID in conf.d/net doesn't work sounds like a bug to me, but one that may take a while to be fixed since I'm not sure how many people use netifrc with wireless.
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If you're open to experimenting, NetworkManager will let you specify that connections may only be used with specific adapters. While normally considered a GUI tool it does have nmcli and nmtui for configuring it on headless systems.
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