this is partially a product of your driver and it's user-interface... if you can really truely statically configure your adhesion to managed network it will work better. joelja On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Cyrus Shaoul wrote: > I have seen the exact same phenomena this afternoon and evening. > > I am starting to get paranoid. Is there a vengeful person out there who > wants us to stop reading mail and listen to the WG meetings? Is there a > bit pattern that someone is broadcasting on purpose that causes this > problem? > > It is not working. It is just making everybody play with their network > settings all the time! Even less attention is going to the WG meetings! > > Oh well, > > Cyrus > > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:15:35 -0800 > Randall Gellens <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > randy> I have been consistently unable to maintain a connection for more > randy> than a very few minutes, usually not even long enough to establish a > randy> VPN tunnel and fetch one message. The 802.11 coverage comes and > randy> goes; the APs seem to vanish and I see nothing for a while, > randy> eventually the network comes back but only briefly. This has been > randy> the case in every session I've attended, as well as tonight's > randy> plenary. It doesn't seem to matter if the room is crowded or empty, > randy> or where I sit. > randy> > randy> I have attempted to only select the 'ietf58' network, but often the > randy> network vanishes and there are no networks visible; other times the > randy> only visible "network" is an ad-hoc calling itself 'ietf58'. > randy> -- > randy> Randall Gellens > randy> Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only > randy> -------------- Randomly-selected tag: --------------- > randy> "SFPD Homicide: Our Day Begins when Yours End" --Slogan seen on back of > randy> San Francisco Police Jacket, as reported by Herb Cain in SF Chronicle > randy> > randy> _______________________________________________ > randy> This message was passed through ietf_censored@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, which is a sublist of ietf@xxxxxxxxx Not all messages are passed. Decisions on what to pass are made solely by IETF_CENSORED ML Administrator (ietf_admin@xxxxxxxx). > > > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2