Re: questions

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

Ahhh...  So when this happens and you go to create new wireless
network are you able to select WPA then?

On 7/30/06, George Whitmore <george p whitmore gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Darren,
> The hot spot is "Panera" for Panera Bread, USA; I have used that hot spot
> for many years mostly with WinXp till a couple of weeks ago I loaded Ubuntu
> 6.06.
>  it seems to want to load that when I return home. The hot spot is about 6
> miles away from my apartment. Like I said I'm using WPA2 personal. When I
> click on 'configure' I get a screen that asks for a SSID and a WEP key, my
> network is set to only WPA, so I cancel out. Then re-boot and try it again.
> Sometimes the little stairway shows up on the task bar and sometimes NOT, so
> in that case I reboot again till the stairway shows up then all is fine. The
> program works it just doesn't like my setup I guess. My SSID is igeorge and
> the access point is about 12 feet from my laptop. Like I said when I select
> my home network it asks for a WEP Key instead of the WPA2 passkey...
>
> george
>
>
> On 7/30/06, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
> > George Whitmore wrote:
> > > However every once in awhile it acts strange, I have to re-boot as
> > > many as 5 times before it will "pick" MY access point. It finds the
> > > access point at outside local hot spots like a dream, but in my
> > > apartment using WPA2 Personal; PSK; TKIP with a 128 bit pass key. It
> > > seems like it wants to connect to the outside "hot-spot" connection
> > > while I'm trying to connect to MY Access Point. Should I disconnect
> > > from the "hot-spot" before logging off? It always happens when I get
> > > back to my apartment.
> >
> > Is there a SSID with the same name as the hotspot near your house?
> > Network-Manager will try and connect to the last network you connected
> > to if it is in range.  So if the hotspot had an ssid named linksys and
> > you go home and your neighbor has the same ssid it will prefer your
> > neighbor since it sees that as the last network you connected to.
> >
> > If you manually select your home network it should use that again until
> > you connect to another network.
> >
> > I suspect that this arrangement is not optimal and will be solved when
> > the work on wireless profiles is completed so then there could be an
> > option to organize network preference but until then this problem will
> > remain.
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