[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Default ad-hoc networks

[Sascha Silbe]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:04:15PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> 1 - If Sugar sees no "known" network, and no "populated" ad hoc
> network, can we automate the picking of an adhoc network after a brief
> timeout (giving enough time to listen to beacons)? Default to ad hoc
> 1?
>
> 2 - If Sugar sees no known network, and a populated ad hoc network,
> can it auto associate?

These are good ideas, though we should make sure it doesn't make regular 
APs more cumbersome to use, like the Mesh support currently does [1].
In particular, it should
a) only kick in after we are sufficiently sure there are no known APs to 
connect to (requires > 1 scanning interval) and
b) switch from empty ad-hoc to known AP as soon as one becomes 
available.


[1] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1883

CU Sascha

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