Re: connection error on duplicate SSID

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 19:43 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: 
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik nnaji gmail com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 01:02, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > now if one WLAN connection is configured to connect automatically and
> >> > the
> >> > same SSID pops up somewhere while roaming, the computer will try to
> >> > connect,
> >> > although it is a different network/passphrase.
> >> > can nm connect through BSSID or is BSSID not regularily broadcasted
> >> > along
> >> > with SSID?
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > networkmanager-list mailing list
> >> > networkmanager-list gnome org
> >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
> >>
> >>
> >> If you right click on the applet and select edit connections, then the
> >> wireless tab, and then finally edit the Wireless Network named O2DSL
> >> you have the option to lock in the BSSID.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >
> > the gratitude is all on my side!
> > now... would there be a way to automate this? a flag in gconf perhaps? would
> > be very practical IMHO..
> 
> It exists when you add a network manually so you could always use that
> method to add a network.   I don't see a gconf option for this but
> maybe Dan has some super double-secret option somewhere for this.

Something like this:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=eda1871902483300a0b94833dc45115be56fbf11

is what you're looking for?

Dan