Re: Disable/Ignore access point

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 14:16 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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.

When you say "killed gconf", you mean 'rm -rf ~/.gconf' and then
'killall -TERM gconfd-2' or something else?

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

If you run the connection editor, you'll see all the connections defined
on your system.

Dan