Re: Disable/Ignore access point

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:

> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 12:29 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> >
> > >> 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?
> >
> > gconftool-2 --shutdown
> >
> > Then rm -rf ~/.gconf/.../linksys  (I removed the linksys directory
> > in the wireless networks list)
> >
> > >> 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.
> >
> > And there are a bunch of "Auto ..." networks there, but not in any
> > particular order which makes it hard to find one in particular.
>
> Any of them have an SSID of linksys?  If you can reproduce the problem,
> then we can whip up a small tool to figure out which settings service is
> providing the 'linksys' connection.

Not that I saw..  I do have a linksys123.
However I do NOT see the linksys in the gconf dir anymore, either.

> Dan

-derek

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