Ah, ok so what we need to do is convence those Apple engineers to
implement a means to move these connections around in some fashion.
This is where a "cut and paste" feature might be handy in VO. If any
of you programming types out there have any suggested solutions, pass
them along and I'll be happy to submit them to Apple. This entire
deal wold be applicable on a laptop more so perhaps than a machine.
tnx
Scott
On Apr 3, 2006, at 9:33 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
By default, the mac will connect (or attempt to) to the first
network in your connection list. This is where the sighted person
comes in. If you've got multiple networks (like I do) you need to
drag the wireless connection to the top of the table. Then,
whenever you reboot the mac, it will loginto the first network in
the list. It works for me, and still allows me to use the mac as a
gateway for 3 other machines connected to a hub, and the hub is
connected to the lan port of the mini. Works like a charm. Of
course, the setup is a pain in the butt, but once it's setup, it
works considerably well.
If you have the gateway configuration tool, it will help make the
configuration a whole lot easier. Of course, I didn't know this
until after I'd done my configuration the first time. Even the
gateway setup didn't do all the work, I still needed to fiddle with
connection settings on the other machines a bit, but at least it
works now all the time.
Apple sure did a nice job with that proggy.
On Apr 3, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks, got a question. I recently was looking for a way to make it
possible for my Macs to connect to my AirPort Extreme
automatically upon login. I spoke to Apple Care on this
extensively and what we ended up doing was to delete any and all
connections my Macs had previously connected to in order to force
it to connect to the only network available. Does anyone know of a
means to accomplish this without having to remove those additional
networks? I doubt it as he did a fair amount of research, but I'm
curious. This idea was to make it easier for my wife so she
wouldn't have to type in the shared key each time she logged in.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Scott
