Re: Network Manager Wifi thoughts

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Matt Burkhardt <mlb imparisystems com> wrote:
>
>  Forgive me if this has already made the rounds....
>
>  I love NM - it's amazing how it works.  My only issue is when someone in my
> vicinity turns on their wireless network called "linksys".  Mine is called
> "matthewboh" if that makes a difference.
>
>  Anyway, I have used a network called "linksys" before and NM tries to
> connect to it - but often times the signal is not good and I immediately
> drop it.  I would like to be able to say "matthewboh" is my preferred
> network, then if that's not available, let NM use it's current method of
> connecting.
>
>  Again, thanks for the work on this.
>

If you are running 0.6.5 or earlier use this method:
http://live.gnome.org/DarrenAlbers/NetworkManagerFAQ#head-bef25c7fff6853c702b745626a9b6fb40058f0e4

If you are running 0.6.6 or later use the Profile Editor to delete the
wireless network.