Re: Disable/Ignore access point

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:29 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 16:15 -0500, Bryan Duff wrote:
> >> My situation is that I have a number of accessible access points for
> >> me.
> >> 
> >> I'll connect to the AP I want, but at some interval NetworkManager
> >> re-scans available AP's and picks an unencrypted AP (that I don't
> >> want).  So I have to then, via nm-applet, reselect the AP I want to
> >> use.
> >
> > So if NM is connecting to it, you must have selected it sometime before.
> > If you won't want to connect to it, you can remove its configuration in
> > the connection editor, and NM won't connect to it automatically any
> > more.
> 
> That didn't work for me..  Even after removing all remnants NM still
> wanted to connect to a local "linksys" network, no matter what I told
> it.

When you say "NM", do you mean NetworkManager itself in the logs said it
was trying to connect, or do you mean you saw the BSSID of the linksys
ap in the results for "iwconfig" at some point?  Was that linksys
connection a system connection?

Dan