#5848 HIGH Update.: losing WLAN circle after failing to connect to anything

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#5848: losing WLAN circle after failing to connect to anything
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  Reporter:  chihyu  |       Owner:  marco   
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  reopened
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Update.1
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:          
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  release?
  Verified:  0       |    Blocking:          
 Blockedby:          |  
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Changes (by yani):

 * cc: mbletsas (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:22 wad] and Ricardo:

 In peabody most of the laptops were associated to an accesspoint in the
 past.

 But only a few of them showed the bug.

 Also, Wad do you recall that some of the XOs showed in the mesh view
 and/or in iwlist
 an old linksys AP, which was turned down at the time?

 Do you believe there is some type of correlation?

 Maybe the XOs who "saw" for some reason this obsolete AP tryed to connect
 to it, and eventually caused the situation described by ricardo.

 Also, we had speculated an explation on this "ghost AP". There was a
 beacon from AP with FF:FF:FF...FF address, and the XO might have linked
 this to a random AP from the network.cfg
 If this is indeed true, it can be the source of many problems, failed
 associations.. etc

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5848#comment:23>
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