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Re: networking a real dog's breakfast

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William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
> Networking on Linux seems to be a bit of a mess. 
> 
> wpa_supplicant just randomly connects with an access point, ignoring all
> suggestions as to what it should connect to. Thus, if you have (like me)
> a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file, it will just randomly choose one of
> them to connect to, if it is available. 
> 
> It will also just connect to the a given SSID in random order, rather
> than connecting to say the BSSID with the strongest signal available (
> as would be sensible) Thus it will connect to a flakey 30% signal
> strength BSSID rather than a 90% signal strength BSSID with the same
> SSID.
> 
> iwlist craps out if there are too many BSSID available. When I am at
> airports, it is impossible to use the Network Center on Mageia, since it
> uses iwlist, and airports often have "too many" access points for iwlist
> (iw will list them, but it has a totally lunatic output format, and
> gives huge warnings that you should not screen scrape it-- and it has,
> as far as I can see, no other output.) Also iw seems not to work at all
> half the time, or if you happen to be connected to an access point, it
> will only give that one AP, when there another 50 available that it does
> not list. 
> wpa_cli MUST have wpa_supplicant running when it tries to do anything. 
> 
> And all of them have woefully inadequate documentation, and ancient
> documentation. ( for example, wpa_supplicant documentation does not mention
> nl80211 driver, when that is now the strongly approved driver, all
> others being deprecated. )

Use networkmanager it will control wpa-supplicant & internally it uses
the nl80211 interface. Wicd on the other hand, calls iwlist internally
so in your case it'd be problematic.

You also will need nm-applet to convienently set up each network.

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networking a real dog's breakfast William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-20 19:34 +0000
  Re: networking a real dog's breakfast Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2018-08-20 20:12 +0000
    Re: networking a real dog's breakfast William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-20 20:59 +0000
    Re: networking a real dog's breakfast tom <tom@0.0.0.0> - 2018-08-27 21:19 -0700
      Re: networking a real dog's breakfast Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-08-28 11:29 +0000
        Re: networking a real dog's breakfast tom <tom@0.0.0.0> - 2018-11-25 18:43 -0800
      Re: networking a real dog's breakfast Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2018-08-28 13:31 +0000
  Re: networking a real dog's breakfast Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2018-08-28 20:10 +0000
    Re: networking a real dog's breakfast William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-28 20:49 +0000
      Re: networking a real dog's breakfast Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2018-08-29 20:21 +0000
        Re: networking a real dog's breakfast William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-29 23:29 +0000
          Re: networking a real dog's breakfast Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2018-08-30 20:19 +0000

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