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tomk11

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Registered: 2014-03-16

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Connecting to a network with multiple access points [Solved]

Hi,

I am currently using wicd to connect to my university network via wpa2/PEAP. Rather irritatingly every time I move to a different room I have to re-enter my username/password to access the network and I believe it is because I am connecting to a different router. I now have multiple config files that wicd has created in /var/lib/wicd/configurations with slightly different names but identical configurations. Has anyone had this problem before/ aware of a fix? or perhaps I need to migrate to a different network manager which supports this kind of network?

any ideas?

Last edited by tomk11 (2015-08-20 06:43:23)

ewaller

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Re: Connecting to a network with multiple access points [Solved]

It has been awhile since I have used wicd, but I seem to recall a checkbox in the settings for a given site that says to connect to any router with the given ssid, not just ones with the correct MAC address.

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tomk11

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Registered: 2014-03-16

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Re: Connecting to a network with multiple access points [Solved]

Ah, 'use these setting for any network sharing this essid' looks promising! can't believe I missed that! If it works next time I am on campus I will mark it as solved.

Thanks