Here's what I did to avoid having to go into system prefs to control panels to change from one system to another, just in case the auto option has a glitch: Go to System Prefs>Network>set Location to Automatic & Show to Airport ,,,, at the bottom of the window, click the box to "Show Airport status in menu bar" to enable that option. Once you have done that, quit & click on the greyed pie-piece-looking icon up in the menu bar, select the "Turn Airport on" option. The icon should go black with lines to indicate the strength of signal. When you click on it again, all the wifi signals available to you should show up in a list & you can go from one to another manually...
On 8/23/06, Bill Rising <wrising at bellarmine.edu> wrote: > On Aug 23, 2006, at 15:19, Brian ONeal wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there is a way to automatically have the mac > > switch its wifi settings depending on what wireless network it sees? > > I have a work location and a home location and a Pitt location, all > > with different IP addresses. When I come home from work I have to > > go into the network control panel and set the network to home, and > > then reset it in the morning when I go to work. Its not that hard > > to do, but I would think that the ol' iBook could do it for me. > > I think mine choses the proper network automatically, but perhaps I'm > wrong... it certainly saw Pitt automatically last night, saw my home > wireless hub at home, and saw the wireless server here at school. > OK... this could do it: > > . Open the Network Preference Pane > . Under 'Show' choose the Network Status > . Select the Airport connection > . Click on Configure > . Change 'By default, join:' to Automatic > > You should be fine, then. > > Bill > > -- Ciao for now, Cathy GREEN | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
