On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:12:52 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Technically, this is somewhat OT because I've got ubuntu installed > on my new netbook at the moment, but since google doesn't have any > answers, I'll try asking here... > > My netbook has wifi, so I'll need network-manager to use it. But, > I don't have wifi at the moment, just wired ethernet. Using nutty > narwhale, I keep getting dialogs because network-manager is trying > to connect to the several wireless networks it can see. Is there > any way to tell it "when I'm at home, do not try to connect to the > following networks ..." ? In theory, wifi is turned off via the > function key, but in practice, like the brightness keys, on this > machine the key appears to work but in practice doesn't do anything. > > The box came with win7 (as unusable as I had imagined, but with a > concept of "location" for network, so that I can tell it "at > home, use the wired network"). > > For the moment, I can live with the extra power consumption of the > wifi circuits, but the random invitations to enter access keys for > networks after I wake it drive me crazy, and when I *do* have my own > wifi I won't want to be prompted to connect to one of my neighbours' > systems. Hi ĸen This is not a very sophisticated answer but what I would do is if you don't use wifi, blacklist the module that is the driver for your wifi chip. That way the module won't load and wifi will be unavailable to network manager so it will not try to use it. That probably won't help if you need to use wireless when you're not at home. I don't know how to go about doing that as I rarely use Ubunut. The annoyances of using a distro like Ubunut drive me to quickly install LFS. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
