Re: Blacklist an SSID

[MartinG <gronslet gmail com>]

On 4/21/07, Jeroen van de Nieuwenhof <lists vandenieuwenhof nl> wrote:
> I don't know if it's possible to blacklist a ssid, but i had a problem
> too that nm connected to my neighbours unprotected network instead of my
> network at home. I solved this by deleting all the keys for this other
> network in gconf-editor. Go to system - networking - wireless -networks
> - <other ssid> and delete all the lines in the right pane. This way nm
> never connects automaticly to that network, unless you manually connect
> to the network. Then you have to do this all over again.

FYI, if using KDE and  knetworkmanager you can avoid automatic
connections to non-crypted networks by clicking the knetworkmanager
applet - Options - Show networks... - select the unwanted network and
click remove item. Moving it to "untrusted" does not work, see
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134402

cheers
-MartinG