On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 15:55 -0400, Robert Love wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 14:44 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: > > > I know this has come up in the past but I can't remember if anything > > was ever decided on it, but I have been traveling a lot lately and > > while in airports I have mistakenly tried to connect to misconfigured > > laptops running in ad-hoc mode that has carried over the SSID from > > somewhere else (This happens to windows users who have their system > > configured to connect to any available AP). Was anything ever decided > > on if Ad-hoc networks were going to be marked or hidden in the UI?
Yup; we need to do this. _And_ we need to make NM connect to Managed/Infrastructure networks of a particular SSID before connecting to an AdHoc network of the same SSID. Right now both have equal weight and that's wrong. > > It is not a big deal, just a minor annoyance since I can use iwlist or > > kismet to see which ones are real access points. > > > > Other than this Network-Manager has been rock solid for me! > > I (and I suspect Mr Williams, as well) would be totally happy to get a > patch that somehow distinguished Ad-Hoc networks in the UI. > > It just needs to be stetic. We probably need new icons. stetic == good :) > It can be handled in the same way we do secure networks now, with a > different icon. > > Robert Love > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
