F15: weird files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

[Tom H]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 10:19 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> On 08/04/2011 05:36 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>>
>>> Besides ifcfg-em1 and ifcfg-lo, I found some weird configuration files
>>> in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts:
>>>
>>> ifcfg-Auto_abc
>>> ifcfg-Auto_linksys 1
>>> ifcfg-Auto_linksys
>>> ifcfg-Auto_mycloud
>>>
>>> I don't know who is reponsible for creating these files. But I saw that
>>> they slowed down NetworkManager's speed after boot when logging in for
>>> the first time (it took about 20 secs until the network was completely
>>> up). After having removed these files, I saw a significant improvement
>>> of NetworkManager.
>>>
>>> Anybody has an explication?
>>
>> They're NetworkManager files and are typically created when it finds
>> wireless networks.
>
> Maybe. But there is no such device attached to my box.

They look like SSIDs rather than devices.