#8189 HIGH Not Tri: connection to wireless AP was unreliable in room having multiple XOs

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#8189: connection to wireless AP was unreliable in room having multiple XOs
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 Reporter:  mikus         |         Owner:                                   
     Type:  defect        |        Status:  new                              
 Priority:  high          |     Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
Component:  not assigned  |       Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:                |   Next_action:  never set                        
 Verified:  0             |     Blockedby:                                   
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 G1G1.  756, with libertas updated to 110.22.p18.  Instead of "locking in"
 on a wireless router in the room, my XO seemed to "hunt" around after I
 had clicked on that AP's icon in Neighborhood view -- and often my XO
 decided to give up on the AP, and run only mesh.

 Sometimes, when the XO did change to 'connected' for the AP, when I tried
 using Browse it sooner or later told me a name could not be found (due in
 fact to the connection to the outside no longer existing).

 [[BR]]
 I experienced unreliability with the AP at more than one XO.  What was
 particularly confusing was that while the wireless router was set on
 Channel 6, I saw the palette entry for the "wireless AP" icon in one XO's
 Frame saying Channel 1, whereas I saw the palette entry for the "wireless
 AP" icon in another XO's Frame saying Channel 11.  [Neither of these "so
 called" connections actually worked.]

 [I was wondering whether the presence of more XOs in the room, some of
 them trying to transmit/listen on mesh channel 1, managed to confuse my
 XO.]

 Am enclosing an olpc-log dump taken shortly after reboot, when my XO did
 *not* manage to connect to the AP.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8189>
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