Bug 30363

Summary:	network center chooses first bssid rather than strongest
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	networkcenter, wpa_supplicant	CVE:
Status comment:

Description w unruh 2022-05-02 20:01:31 CEST

Description of problem:
If there are a number of BSSID associated with the same SSID name, wpa_supplicant chooses the first one it comes across rather than the one with the strongest signal. This often results in an association with a flaky weak signal in Netwrk Center rather than with a solid strong one. One way might be to use the wpa_cli command 
bssid <network id> <BSSID> = set preferred BSSID for an SSID
to force wpa_supplicant with the strongest SSID

Of corse this dos not solve the eternal problem with network center that if there are too many BSSID in a region, "wpa_cli scan_results " reports nothing, with wext driver because wext reports nothing (eg bug 17706 a 6 year old bug)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:Always


Steps to Reproduce:Connect using Network Center. It will often connect to a weaker signal than strongest.

I guess the person who set up Network Center stopped, and no-one else has stepped in to keep up maintenance .

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2022-05-10 21:26:52 CEST

Duplicate.

You're right, sometimes someone fixes something in drakx-net, but those someones are always contributors with too many other things on their to-do lists.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23453 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
CC: (none) => marja11