I think a "manage prefered networks" dialog would be a good idea. This way you could even order them and create a priority within the preferred list. E.g., I always prefer "foo-a" over "foo" (I have two networks at home) because I prefer 802.11(a) over 802.11(b/g).
-derek PS: On a related note: it would be nice if NM could realize that there's a difference between an (a) and a (b/g) network even when they both have the same SSID. Last week at the IETF they had used the same SSID for the (a) and (b/g) networks, so I had to specifically tell my atheros card to prefer the (a) network -- but that failed when I was in the one area that ONLY had b/g... Unfortunately NM doesn't really handle this situation. :( Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So a while back apparently Comcast was down in my area, but I didn't > know that, so I kept trying a bunch of different wireless networks > instead of the one I normally use. I successfully associated with most > of them, but of course internet access didn't work (so I then tried > another, until I figured out that the Internet was broken in general). > > The result is that all of them are in my preferred networks list, and it > seems kind of random which one NetworkManager chooses to associate with > when I get home and unsuspend my laptop. The problem is that some of > them are slower or nonfunctional altogether. > > I'd like a way to tell NM that those networks are crap, forget about > them. I guess I could use gconf-editor...but presumably we want a real > way to handle this situation? > > One possible approach would be to have a fullblown dialog/window appear > when you click on the icon instead of the menu. The dialog would have a > button like "Remove" for the preferred list. > > Somewhat related - we should probably differentiate preferred networks > somehow in the dropdown list as it is now too. This would be essential > for the dialog too. > > Thinking about this a bit more, maybe another alternative is to have an > internal "priority" for networks (does this already exist?). If I > choose a different network immediately (say 10 seconds) after NM > associates with one in my preferred list, the priority of the previously > chosen one drops. If I do this enough, maybe it drops off the preferred > list altogether. > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
