Disabling automatic association w/ open WAPs on boot (Backtrack2)?

socialcred · 04-24-2007, 02:51 PM

I am using backtrack2 with a hard drive installation on a dell latitude 610 laptop with the Intel wireless adapter (which loads as a pcimcia device). The wireless card (eth1) automatically connects to any open wireless access point it detects during booting. How do I disable this feature. I only want to connect to WAPs I specify... I thought changing the rc.wireless.conf file may be the solution, but have had no success...

(I would not mind connecting using only the kde tools)
Any help will be greatly appreciated!

MS3FGX · 04-24-2007, 03:10 PM

You will need to edit rc.wireless.conf and remove the ESSID="any" line for your card (it will either be using the generic configuration, or the configuration matching your card's MAC).

socialcred · 04-24-2007, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MS3FGX

You will need to edit rc.wireless.conf and remove the ESSID="any" line for your card (it will either be using the generic configuration, or the configuration matching your card's MAC).

Thanks for your super fast response..

I removed the line, without solving the problem. Are their other configuration files that may be causing the automatic association (like the wlan.conf or wireless.opts or the various startup scripts)?

Another issue is that with iwconfig I see the connection, but cannot turn off the radio with iwconfig eth0 power off. The command runs without result...

socialcred · 04-25-2007, 12:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by socialcred

Thanks for your super fast response..

I removed the line, without solving the problem. Are their other configuration files that may be causing the automatic association (like the wlan.conf or wireless.opts or the various startup scripts)?

Another issue is that with iwconfig I see the connection, but cannot turn off the radio with iwconfig eth0 power off. The command runs without result...

Could the problem be the setup of the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and /etc/pcmcia/wireless script or the /etc/pcmcia/network script? They both seem to be setup to associate with any ssid...