Re: controlling wireless connections

[Gene Czarcinski <gene czarc net>]

On 08/07/2013 04:17 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 10:11 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > I recently moved into a new development and pretty much each and every
> > home in this development has a WIFI network.  While most of these
> > network are secure a few of them are not but require some kind of
> > handshake to establish "guest" access.  These "guest access" WIFI
> > networks are a pain because my Fedora 18 client systems (running Network
> > Manager) will sometimes attempt to use one of these network rather then
> > my secure WIFI network.
> >
> > Is there some way to "blacklist" WIFI network not to be used?  Or, to
> > reverse that question, is there some way of specifying that only
> > networks with a specific SSID should be used?
> NM will only autoconnect to networks that it has been told to connect to
> before, based on SSID and security settings.  So, if you run
> 'nm-connection-editor', do you see configurations for those bad SSIDs?
> If they exist, something (either a UI applet or you) told NM to connect
> to them, but they can easily be deleted from there.
>
> (Or from the command line too with 'nmcli con', then find the ID or UUID
> and "nmcli con delete id <id>" or "nmcli con delete uuid <uuid>")
Thanks.  I appear to have had a "senior moment" which caused a pilot 
error.  Now that I understand that I can forget wireless networks that I 
never want to connect to, it is working.  This forgetting works over a 
boot where NM is restarted.  Time will tell to see what happens when one 
of the wireless networks is restarted.

Gene