Re: NM is not being smart in a specific situation

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 8/22/06, Robert Love <rml novell com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 15:39 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> > Though; we had discussed storing the mode of the network in the
> > info-daemon/GConf/Kconfig/whatever too, and ignoring access points of
> > that ESSID that don't match the mode.  That sounds reasonable to me.
>
> That sort of does the same thing as checking the BSSID, no?
>
> And we still have the same problem, if you see the _right_ AP and try to
> connect, but end up on the _wrong_ AP; there is always that race.
>
>         Robert Love

While this may sound hackish but wouldn't it be easier to just create
an option to ignore ad-hoc devices?  Maybe a checkbox in the wireless
profile screen where a user enters the network information?