Ahhh... So when this happens and you go to create new wireless network are you able to select WPA then?
On 7/30/06, George Whitmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Darren, > The hot spot is "Panera" for Panera Bread, USA; I have used that hot spot > for many years mostly with WinXp till a couple of weeks ago I loaded Ubuntu > 6.06. > it seems to want to load that when I return home. The hot spot is about 6 > miles away from my apartment. Like I said I'm using WPA2 personal. When I > click on 'configure' I get a screen that asks for a SSID and a WEP key, my > network is set to only WPA, so I cancel out. Then re-boot and try it again. > Sometimes the little stairway shows up on the task bar and sometimes NOT, so > in that case I reboot again till the stairway shows up then all is fine. The > program works it just doesn't like my setup I guess. My SSID is igeorge and > the access point is about 12 feet from my laptop. Like I said when I select > my home network it asks for a WEP Key instead of the WPA2 passkey... > > george > > > On 7/30/06, Darren Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > George Whitmore wrote: > > > However every once in awhile it acts strange, I have to re-boot as > > > many as 5 times before it will "pick" MY access point. It finds the > > > access point at outside local hot spots like a dream, but in my > > > apartment using WPA2 Personal; PSK; TKIP with a 128 bit pass key. It > > > seems like it wants to connect to the outside "hot-spot" connection > > > while I'm trying to connect to MY Access Point. Should I disconnect > > > from the "hot-spot" before logging off? It always happens when I get > > > back to my apartment. > > > > Is there a SSID with the same name as the hotspot near your house? > > Network-Manager will try and connect to the last network you connected > > to if it is in range. So if the hotspot had an ssid named linksys and > > you go home and your neighbor has the same ssid it will prefer your > > neighbor since it sees that as the last network you connected to. > > > > If you manually select your home network it should use that again until > > you connect to another network. > > > > I suspect that this arrangement is not optimal and will be solved when > > the work on wireless profiles is completed so then there could be an > > option to organize network preference but until then this problem will > > remain. > > _______________________________________________ > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
