Comment 64 for bug 291760
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| Howard Chu (hyc) wrote Re: network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) | #64 |
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>Regardless of whether I am connected or not, when I open the NM menu to see
>broadcast networks, it is going to have to scan then, right?
No. Opening the menu only shows you the results of the last scan, whenever that was. It doesn't initiate a scan.
>So if that scan causes me to temporarily lose connectivity, that is a bug
>that needs fixing much more importantly.
>On my AR5418 (ath9k) I see the message every 2 minutes ONLY OCCASIONALLY
>now. It was happening in the early hours of this morning but it isn't
>happening right now, for example.
>As an aside, sometimes I get disconnected and it won't go past one green
>globe stage (yeah, thanks NM error feedback for that useful info). This is
>ALWAYS fixed by unloading the driver, killing wpa_supplicant and reloading
>the driver. Maybe it's related to when NM starts roaming to (none) and back.
I've run into that with various versions of the ath9k driver. My current one (built from wireless-testing git a couple weeks ago) seems to be fine though.