I still use Network Manager on some ancient (5 years old!) laptop distros, but have not found useful documentation.
I learned how to delete unwanted wifi connections, in particular xfinity. They are stored in: .gconf/system/networking/connections ... which is lots of numbered directories, not so useful. However, going to that directory and doing this: grep -r Auto * > names Gave me a list of the network names (I've accumulated 340) embedded in xml fluff. After making a backup copy of the "connections" directory, I used vi to edit the list down to number/name pairs with a tab in between. Then I removed the lines of access points that I wanted to keep. Then I removed everything after the tab, and put an "rm -r " in front of the spaces. Then I ran the file as a script with "sh names" Perhaps there is a GUI command to do similar editing, but I make too many mistakes with GUIs. Making backup directories, then making scripts that I can review obsessively, is a much safer way to do a cleanup. One surprise was that there was nothing like "Jack's Porn Shop" in the hundreds of names. I would have guessed I was more curious about such things. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
