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On 01/11/2024 12:50, druck wrote:
> On 01/11/2024 10:24, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 31/10/2024 21:54, druck wrote:
>>> However, when using Network Manager, it sometimes decides to try a
>>> different network, leaving a remote headless Pi stuffed. Whilst all
>>> my 'desktop/media' Pi's (connected to monitors and keyboards) are on
>>> Bookworm, all the headless ones are remaining on Bullseye for the
>>> time being.
>>
>> I already told you the solution to that.
>>
>> There is a priority system in network manager.
>>
>> Otherwise it will connect to whatever it connected to last time, or
>> sometimes not
>>
>> If you have more than one connection profile use:
>>
>> sudo nmcli c modify MYCONNECTIONNAME   connection.autoconnect-priority 1
>>
>> Randomly created connections are default priority zero
>>
>> This is also an accessible parameter from the GUI widget if you have a
>> GUI interface
>>
>> It will then at least try only that SSID *first*
>>
>> Or delete any alternative connection profiles
>
> Except it doesn't actually work all the time. I've set up all my Pi's
> which have both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi with a higher priority to the
> 5GHz network which has a different SSID to the 2.4 GHz one. Most of the
> time they honour that but occasionally I find one has switched back to
> 2.4 GHz, and it's not because the 5GHz signal strength has dropped
> according to the logging.
>
Then delete the 2,4 GHZ SSID...


> Network manager has not yet reached the required level of stability.
>
> ---druck

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