Re: connection error on duplicate SSID

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik nnaji gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 01:02, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> > now if one WLAN connection is configured to connect automatically and
>> > the
>> > same SSID pops up somewhere while roaming, the computer will try to
>> > connect,
>> > although it is a different network/passphrase.
>> > can nm connect through BSSID or is BSSID not regularily broadcasted
>> > along
>> > with SSID?
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>>
>> If you right click on the applet and select edit connections, then the
>> wireless tab, and then finally edit the Wireless Network named O2DSL
>> you have the option to lock in the BSSID.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> the gratitude is all on my side!
> now... would there be a way to automate this? a flag in gconf perhaps? would
> be very practical IMHO..

It exists when you add a network manually so you could always use that
method to add a network.   I don't see a gconf option for this but
maybe Dan has some super double-secret option somewhere for this.