[Prism54-devel] Long timeouts while roaming

[Ulrich Hochholdinger]

Hi,
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:47:47PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> This is just how the hardware/firmware behaves. I am still not sure --
> do you want the card to ASSOC to only one AP or to any available? If you
> want it to stick to an AP just set the essid to the essid of the AP you
> wan it to stick with. To make it automatically choose the best link, use
> `iwconfig eth0 mode Auto`. I auto mode, the hardware/firmware will be in
> charge of always looking and ASSOC'ing to the best link.
The goal is to take the Accesspoint with the best link. All 60
Accesspoints have the same essid, so I set a fixed essid, and mode
managed. So mode auto is different to mode managed? It is not really
explained in the manpages of wireless_tools only mentioned. 
I will try setting to mode auto...

Gruss
	Ulli

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