Please see inline...<br><br>Did you happen to see my other email re: switch connections and the three use cases?<br><br>I did follow your advice and remove the disconnect calls (I thought disconnect would end the connection to a network so you could then connect to another). And I was able to the reconnect to the same network (same id & password). I have not tried reconnect (with
<span style="font-style: italic;">different </span>id & password) though...I'll do that in the office tomorrow.<br><br>I haven't been able to connect to on ap, then connect to another yet....but please read the uses cases and s'il vous plait, advise me of the correct command sequence.
<br><br>inline below...<br><br>thanks so much,<br><br>george<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jouni Malinen</b> <<a href="mailto:jkmaline@cc.hut.fi">jkmaline@cc.hut.fi</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:45:48AM -0700, George S. Lockwood wrote:<br><br>> Where does a MSNdis_StatusMediaDisconnect come from?
<br><br>The NDIS miniport driver generates it.<br><br>> Sometimes after a connection / authentication has been established, after a<br>> short amount of time, I receive a MSNdis_StatusMediaDisconnect in the<br>> console log followed by a disconnection.
<br>><br>> Why?<br><br>For some reason, the driver believed that the association was lost. This<br>could be caused, e.g., by the AP disconnecting the client.</blockquote><div><br>Don't know why it would...a very stable AP and network.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> When this "event" (?) occurs, the wpa_sup stays inactive for a long time
<br>> (>30 seconds to minutes) before retrying to connect.<br><br>This is not expected. wpa_supplicant is supposed to reconnect more<br>quickly. Are you using ap_scan=2 or ap_scan=1 mode?</blockquote><div><br>Certainly, ap_scan=2 as this is a hidden when I saw it this morning.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> How can I guarantee a constant and consistent connection?<br><br>I would not claim any guarantees on constant wireless connection.. Sure,
<br>this is not supposed to happen frequently if the client remains close<br>enough to the AP and there is not too much external interference.</blockquote><div><br>Of coures. Am really asking: are there timeout controls (use of those period variables perhaps) that could be tuned to look ~frequently at the state of the connection and cause a reaction: reconnect attempt immediately?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Can I react "immediately" to MSNdis_StatusMediaDisconnect "event" or
<br>> whatever it is?<br><br>That's what is already supposed to happen..<br><br>> Here's the log:<br><br>Could you please send the full log and the configuration file you used<br>here? I would like to know what exactly happened after the disconnection
<br>and the debug log here does not continue long enough to show how the<br>connection was eventually recovered.</blockquote><div><br>I can try...the log gets very large...perhaps I can cut and paste the console text a number of times and combine in a useful and helpful manner for you. Of course I could send you the config file.
<br><br>But that will be in 8hrs as it is night here and I'm not in the office.<br><br>would love to see your use case recommendationed command sequences. Perhaps I could write up your answer with my use cases in such a way as you could use in the user documentation. Be glad to help you.
<br><br>-george<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br>Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
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