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Jonhoo

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 118

Order of profiles for netcfg-auto-wireless

Hi fellow Archers,

I'm running Arch Linux with netcfg 2.5.4 on my laptop, and have several wireless network profiles set up. Amongst other things, I have three profiles for my University WLAN. The reason for this is that the University offers three different wireless networks, one for Staff, one for Students and one unencrypted with a password-protected HTTP proxy. I have access to all three, but I want netcfg to attempt to connect to the networks in that order.

I have tried to name the profiles as such:
UniversityAStaff
UniversityBStudent
UniversityCOpen

But that doesn't seem to make any difference; it still connects to the Student network by default.
Is there any way of setting the priority of the wireless networks that netcfg-auto-wireless tries to connect to?

Jon

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,362

Re: Order of profiles for netcfg-auto-wireless

A random guess, but wouldn't it select in order of strongest signal? You may want to write your own script instead of using net-auto-wireless (which is 'only' a wrapper around wpa_actiond afaik). Else try reading documentation for wpa_actiond.

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parintachin

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Registered: 2009-05-25

Posts: 72

Re: Order of profiles for netcfg-auto-wireless

if you make your profiles like in /etc/network.d/examples/wireless-wpa-configsection you can put a priority falue in the wpa_supplicant section this should do the trick

edit because of typo

Last edited by parintachin (2010-03-08 14:48:44)