Re: Disable/Ignore access point

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

> 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?

Yes, I mean Network Manager itself connected to the linksys even though
I erased it.  I even stopped NM, killed nm-applet, killed gconf, deleted
all the files, and restarted everything, and it *still* connected to
the linksys network against my wishes.

I shouldn't have any system connections..  At least I'm pretty sure I
never set any up.  How do I check?

> Dan

-derek

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