Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 169593
multiple networks broadcast by the same radios appear as multiple instances of the same network
Last modified: 2008-02-11 22:09:03 EST
I just installed a wireless network into my employer's new offices. I used a 3com WX1200 wireless controller with six 3com 2750 managed wireless access points. The 2750s are capable of broadcasting up to 32 unique SSIDs each, and I have them all broadcasting three SSIDs, AirFooPublic, AirFoo, and AirFooPrivate (where Foo is actually the name of my employer). In NetworkManagerInfo's list of access points, however, these three networks usually appear as three separate instances of "AirFoo". Connecting to the first "AirFoo" in the list succeeds, but trying to connect to the second and third "AirFoo" in the list of wireless networks fails, even though I should have access to both AirFoo and AirFooPublic via NetworkManager (AirFooPrivate is WPA-encrypted, so I shouldn't have access to it via NetworkManager). After connecting, I can confirm that I am indeed connected to the actual "AirFoo" and not either of the other two networks. If I shut down the NetworkManager and network services via "service <service name> stop", remove the ipw2200 and ieee80211 modules from the kernel via "modprobe -r", and then add those modules back into the kernel and turn the services back on, the networks appear correctly in NetworkManagerInfo's list for a short time (in order from top to bottom AirFooPrivate, AirFooPublic, AirFoo), but then they revert to the buggy behavior. I'm not sure how long it takes for them to revert or what causes them to do so. I'm using NetworkManager 0.4 release 20.FC4.1 with ipw2220 1.0.6, ieee80211 1.0.3, and ipw2200 firmware 2.3.
This problem may be fixed in NM 0.5.0. I've just started using it recently, but so far it displays all three networks correctly.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Should be fixed for a while now.