So, I live in the city. When I'm sitting in my house, there are no less than *twenty* advertised Wi-Fi SSIDs visible to me, but there are only _two_ of them that are actually accessible to me. All of the others belong to other people around the neighbourhood (I don't even know who, in most cases), and are locked. And the situation's not really much better when I go to a shop or hotel that offers Wi-Fi to its customers: it's great once I can find that one SSID and click on it, but it's anguish to get to that point.
Is there some way to make either NetworkManager or the GNOME NetworkManager front end just ignore all of those SSIDs? It used to be that it was easy to find the Wi-Fi network I wanted, because there were only a few--and they were all open; it was like, I knew which house is the inn because it was the one with the big "WELCOME" sign out front. Now the `scenery' of the wireless landscape is totally different: it seems like there are more of them every day, and already it's at the point where it's a major hassle to wade through the sea of `"wouldn't it be nice if you were WELCOME here but you aren't so gtfo" signs' to find the ones I'm looking for. I'm not going to bother asking what the point is of publicly advertising private resources; I'm just looking for a way of coping with it. I'm drowning in Wi-Fi SSIDs. Help. -- "'tis an ill wind that blows no minds." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
