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Re: Automatic reassociate with AP

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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:10:28PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> when the AP flakes out, or I just appen to be out of range, the kernel 
> drops the AP association, as dmesg shows:
> 
> wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:0b:0e:4f:cf:80 - assume out of 
> range
> 
> Manually rerunning `iwconfig wlan0 essid FooNet channel 11` 
> reassociates, but I wonder whether the kernel could not do that itself, 
> given that it knows the previous settings like ESSID.

Patches welcome... :-)

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