Multiple WLAN Routers with same SSID

[Petric Frank <pfrank gmx de>]

Hello,

at my location i sometimes notice that different WLAN-routers broadcasts the 
same SSID, but different frequencies and MAC-addresses. They also require 
different (WPA1/2-) keys to access. But i have only the access key of one of 
this access points.

The autoconnect feature of nm-applet (and hence network manager) seems to 
select the host to connect only by the SSID - which often fails.

Could i suggest to implement and use (/store) the MAC address of the WLAN 
access point as additional selection key (maybe optionally) ?

Maybe it is already there, but i failed to find on how to configure it (using 
nm-applet).

Yes, i know, the backend is wpa-supplicant - maybe there is the deficit. But 
network manager is "configuring it" and so this should be possible.

Actually i use network manager v. 0.9.4.0.

regards
  Petric