Wpa_gui and multiple access points

[Ottavio Caruso]

On 2 December 2013 14:48, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
> I see uou are only specifying
>         ssid="Visitors_XXXXXXXXX"
> & you are not specifying bssid, so whatever is selecting a bssid
> is perhaps picking up an access point at random perhaps at low
> signal strength far away ?

That was automatically generated by wpa_gui. I didn't even touch the
configuration file.
Now that I've added two more peers, I have replicated entries:

bash-4.2# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
update_config=1


network={
        ssid="Visitors"
        key_mgmt=NONE
        auth_alg=OPEN
        disabled=1
}

network={
        ssid="Visitors"
        key_mgmt=NONE
        auth_alg=OPEN
        disabled=1
}

network={
        ssid="Visitors"
        key_mgmt=NONE
        auth_alg=OPEN

Notice the "disabled=1"

> I suggest you do
>         ifconfig wlan0 scan
> then manually select a high power signal (They are the ones with
> the smaller numbers in the S of the S:N columns).

Shouldn't that be the ones with the highest numbers?




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Ottavio