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Old 11-28-2012, 03:56 PM   #1
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How to forget wireless hotspot


I half-heartedly tried to setup a wireless hotspot using the wireless adaptor in my System 76 Darter laptop while it was on a wired connection. It didn't work, but how to get it to work is not my question. There are scores of threads and posts about telling me how to make it work.

Since I tried to set this up, everytime I boot up, or wake the laptop it only connects to the non-working hotspot. Obviously, when not plugged into an ethernet cable, it has no chance of working. It also fails to show any other wireless connection available. To connect to a wireless now, I must turn off the external wireless switch, then turn it back on. It still defaults to the hotspot, but at least I can then choose a working connection.

OK, how do I kill the hotspot. Telling the network manager to forget it obviously does not work for me. If there is another way, I would be happy to hear it. Maybe someone can tell me where Ubuntu 12.04 with a Cinnamon DE stores the info about a hotspot? I have no issue editing those types of files in an effort to get rid of this blasted thing.
 
Old 11-28-2012, 04:52 PM   #2
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Hello,

look here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/3677/...ess-on-startup hope this helps. If not, you'll have to read the documentation for the networkmanager. Maybe you'll have to delete it's configuration completely.

If you want a temporary workaround without touching the configuration, I'd suggest to find out which module is loaded for the wifi adapter and blacklist it. (command lspci -k)

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Old 11-29-2012, 07:41 AM   #3
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Hello,

look here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/3677/...ess-on-startup hope this helps. If not, you'll have to read the documentation for the networkmanager. Maybe you'll have to delete it's configuration completely.

If you want a temporary workaround without touching the configuration, I'd suggest to find out which module is loaded for the wifi adapter and blacklist it. (command lspci -k)

Markus
Perhaps I phrased my question badly. I do NOT want to disable wireless entirely, I simply want the hotspot setup gone. I use wireless quite a bit, (I am on it right now). I travel a great deal, and many of the hotels I stay at have exclusively wireless connectivity. I want it to automatically connect to the wireless when I am home, and want it to tell me when wireless is available when I am somewhere new.

It seems odd to me that there are scores of postings out there that tell how to set up a hotspot, but no one seems to know how to disable/forget a hotspot. I can't think I am the only one with a rogue hotspot that takes over the wireless card I cannot rid myself of.

Where is the configuration for the network manager stored? Perhaps I can edit that file and get rid of only the hotspot.
 
Old 11-29-2012, 08:23 AM   #4
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In Slackware the configuration is in /etc/NetworkManager/ (note the uppercase N!).
There's also a manpage
Code:
man NetworkManager.conf
I use only wpa_supplicant for my wireless connections, also on my subnotebook which I use in different networks, it connects automatically to the available network (provided of course, that I've configured it).

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Old 11-29-2012, 09:12 AM   #5
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In Slackware the configuration is in /etc/NetworkManager/ (note the uppercase N!).
There's also a manpage
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man NetworkManager.conf
I use only wpa_supplicant for my wireless connections, also on my subnotebook which I use in different networks, it connects automatically to the available network (provided of course, that I've configured it).

Markus
I switched to unity, it offered me an "edit networks" option. Deleting the hotspot with that seems to have worked. The "forget network" in cinnamon doesn't seem to do what it was designed to do.

I switched back to cinnamon, and the hotspot is gone, and it's back to behaving the way I need it to. (I really dislike unity.
 
  


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