Don't go wireless when wired is available...

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 14:06:26 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Darryl L. Pierce <dpierce at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 01:36:00PM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
>> For some reason over the past week my F15 laptop has started pestering
>> me for the WPA2 key at work when I'm using my laptop.
>>
>> The problem is that 1) it does it when I'm in the docking station and on
>> a wired connection and 2) I already have a WPA2 key setup for a
>> different wireless network at work that's present at the same time, but
>> to which the laptop's not trying to connect.
>>
>> How do I, short of turning off wireless when I login while docked, tell
>> F15/Gnome3 to stop trying to connect to a wireless network? I want it to
>> give the wired connection preference and not try to go wireless as well.
>
> So is nobody else experiencing this problem?

I haven't upgraded to F15 yet, but I remember having this issue in the
early days of NetworkManager... Perhaps this is a regression?

Richard


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