[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Wavemon or other monitoring application for WLAN

[From: Kalle Valo]

"ext Dirk Kuijsten" <dirk.kuijsten at xs4all.nl> writes:

> Other topic: I noticed the connection manager will configure an autoconf
> IP address (APIPA 169.254.x.x) very fast. When connecting to access points
> with a moderate signal strength the 770 sometimes doesn't get an IP
> address. But it will not retry to get a good IP address via DHCP. But the
> connection manager and iwconfig show the client is connected to the AP,
> thus should be able to do networking.
> Maybe this is just a problem with those AP's and could be solved, so I
> will test this again later, because DHCP always works for my home AP. If
> not, my suspicion goes to a possible timeout used with the DHCP client.

The DHCP client asks for address from a DHCP server four times before
it sets an IPv4 link-local address. And after that it will try once a
minute to get an address from a DHCP server. If that's not happening,
something is wrong and you should file a bug to bugzilla. Which AP
were you using?

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Kalle Valo