Hello, Am Freitag, 21. September 2012, 20:17:24 schrieb Dan Williams: > On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 12:42 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > On 09/21/2012 12:14 PM, Marius Kotsbak wrote: > > > On Sep 20, 2012 11:38 PM, "Petric Frank" <pfr...@gmx.de > > > <mailto:pfr...@gmx.de>> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > In fact (here in Germany) german telecom delivered WLAN-routers > > > > which all have preset the same (E)SSID. Shall i go to every > > > > household (even if i can locate them) in my environment to tell > > > > them to change their SSID ? > > > > > > That is bad (but it seems like Linksys routers are the same), but you > > > should be able to change the SSID of the AP you use. > > > > As far as I know, all routers from a given manufacturer come from the > > factory with the same ESSID and the same router password. It certainly > > is true for Netgear and Linksys, As Marius says, you should change the > > ESSID, and it is very important to change the password. If you don't, > > you may find that someone else will lock you out of your AP/router, and > > you will need to learn where the reset button is located. The default > > ESSID is a clue that the password might not have been changed. > > We've actually had code in NM for quite a long time that, if you click > on a new network with any of the names: > > "linksys", > "linksys-a", > "linksys-g", > "default", > "belkin54g", > "NETGEAR", > "o2DSL", > "WLAN", > "ALICE-WLAN",
"Speedport W 501V" In fact here the SSID is the name of a device delivered by german telecom to its subscribers. > then NM will create that connection *and* lock it to that access points > BSSID, so that users don't run into this situation. Obviously, as time > goes on we may need to add more to this list. If anyone has > nominations, please let me know! See above. _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list