Description of problem: My next door neighbor (whom I help with IT stuff from time to time) has a wireless network, and I have one too. Some time ago I did some work at his house and used NetworkManager for the first time as he has WEP enabled and it was easier than trying to figure out how to do it another way. As a result I've continued to use NetworkManager as it's very good. Unfortunately, while NetworkManager also happily connects to out wireless router, everytime it senses his come on, it tries to connect to his instead of staying connected to my router. I assume that this has to do with the order in which the networks were connected to using NM, and that his has a higer priority than mine. However, I can't see any way to reorder his prioritization so that my router has a higher precendent than his. This is really quite annoying having NM just try and switch wireless routers and since I didn't remember his WEP passphrase the connection just dies.
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This still seems to be an issue in rawhide. There isn't any way I can see of saying whether I should try to automatically connect to a hotspot, or dictating which order NM should try to connect.
To control automatic connections to a specific network, you can right-click on the applet and choose "Edit Connections..." or run /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor. Find the connection you want in the tabs, then click the "Edit..." button or double-click the connection. There will be a "Connect automatically" checkbox near the top. Check/uncheck that however you like, then hit OK. NM will connect to the wireless network that you last successfully connected to, if that network can be seen from scans. You can delete networks you no longer want from the connection editor which of course ensures that NM won't try to connect to them again. You can also lock a connection to a specific AP by filling in the BSSID field in the connection editor; thus if you always want to connect to a certain 'linksys' out of 5 other 'linksys' APs that your neighbors are running, you can do that. Basically, I think the existing methods should be able to provide what you need to do, and we can likely tweak them if needed. Can you give it a shot? Thanks!
Created attachment 304305 [details] OK Button greyed out Okay, all that looks good except that the OK button is greyed out trying to edit a connection which makes it hard to apply the changes.
Please update to the latest NM for Fedora 9, that will likely fix this bug. You'll want svn3623 or later.
Okay, the OK button is now clickable, but I did what you suggested, opened the edit connections, selected Wireless, selected the AP, clicked edit, unclicked Connect Automatically and then hit OK and something crashed. I'll try to get a backtrace, but what debug packages do I need to install?
Created attachment 304367 [details] output from bugbuddy I've installed NetworkManager-debuginfo and this is the backtrace. Do I need to also install debuginfo for nautilus, evolution or other packages, or is this enough?
When you click on the "Wifi Security" tab in the connection editor, which option is selected in the dropdown at the top?
For this particular AP, it's "NONE" I tried a couple of other AP I have listed and one which as WPA1/WPA2 works fine when I click okay and another that has "NONE" also crashes when I click OK, so I think you're on to something here.
Interesting. Two of the APs in my list still have the OK button greyed out. I've got seven all up, and the other five are fine (other than the "NONE" issue above).
connection editor crash fixed in applet svn r712
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This all seems to be working now. The OK button is active and clicking okay for items with Security set to NONE works.