[Server-devel] AP association, and mesh behaviour

[John Watlington]

And has been directly reported as #6872

On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:11 PM, John Watlington wrote:

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> This problem is believed to be the same as #5459.
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5459
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> On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:23 AM, sulochan acharya wrote:
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>> >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.
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>> --> 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
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