Hi, I have another problem with the way NM handles multiple APs for a wireless network it detects. Our company has a whole lot of APs for the same net, all with ESSID hidden, so they are not really autodetected. What works fortunately, is that when I'm already connected to an AP with a known MAC, and go to some area with a previously unknown AP, it seems to keep trying the current network, thereby discovering the AP and adding it's MAC to the list (as seen in gconf). Unfortunately, when the first AP I "see" in the morning is a previously unknown one, NM only tries my home net, which of course doesn't work, so I have to enter the whole stuff again. If there would be a menu entry where I could list all the known nets and force it to try one, this would help enormously. Which leads me directly to my next problem: Our company keeps changing essid and wep key on a regular (short) shedule (as the wireless net is allowed for partners and visitors to use, too). When this changes, I would like to change the old net to the new by changing the essid and the key, this way I'd not loose all the MAC addresses. That again needs to have access to even the currently inactive known nets. A last little suggestion: It would be very nice if one could set an alias for the network (which could on detection be assigned the value of the essid) because having only random glibberisch in our essids doesn't make it easy to see in the list of known nets. This would help of course if it would be sometime possible to have more than one wired configuration stored jtl
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