[Server-devel] AP association, and mesh behaviour

[John Watlington]

This problem is believed to be the same as #5459.
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5459

On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:23 AM, sulochan acharya wrote:

> >Do you know whether it's just a UI thing, or does it mean that the
> >antenna is still scanning? How can we tell if it is? (and is the
> >scannign costly resource-wise?)
>
> >  You are wrong about its behavior with known APs.   The laptop  
> always
> >  searches for mesh portals.  If it doesn't find any, it then  
> looks for
> >  APs that it knows about.  If it finds one, it selects it.
>
>
>
> --> We've seen similar behaviour here in Nepal. I was believing  
> that this is only an UI problem and not network as a whole. I  
> didn't find anything unusual in wireshark either or maybe missed it  
> completely. I've seen this with Q2D14 and 656, 702 and 703.
>
> Is there a way to completely disable the mesh search and get the XO  
> to display only the networks available?? We are going for regular  
> wifi as AP, and mesh portal search seem to add confusion.
>
> best,
> Sulo