Expected date for 8.2.0

[david at lang.hm]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Chris Ball wrote:

>   > 2.) I noticed in build 757 after opening the lid the system would
>   > attempt to connect to the last network device it had been connected
>   > to.  With 759 it looks for a mesh first no matter that you had been
>   > connected to an AP last.
>
> It will try the previous AP again, but it'll first cycle through the
> mesh channels looking for a school server.  This was a request from
> deployment, to make sure that when a laptop arrives from home to school
> it finds the school server there.  The cycle time is unfortunately long:
> over a minute.  If it's enough of an inconvenience, we might consider
> some mechanism (perhaps a networks.cfg entry) for saying "I don't care
> about connecting to mesh networks automatically, always prefer APs."

can't you look for both at the same time? just use whichever responds 
first. it's not likely that you will have the AP and a school server in 
range at the same time.

David Lang