On 2007-09-03, Mountain Mike^^ intrigued me by typing:
>
> "Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote in message
> news:ad0nd3pg2plrf2bs2medj2o9a2neooehpn@4ax.com...
> If your Ubuntu
>> client is asking for a pass phrase, then some wireless router is
>> advertising that it needs one. Since that's not yours, it must be
>> someone elses.
>>
>
> Nice catch. I have a Ubuntu box doing exactly the same thing. It's a bug in
> Network Manager, me thinks. It keeps connecting me to my neighbors signal
> (open), and I have to keep manually disconnecting it and having it connect
> to mine. Even though mine is stronger, it takes the first one it sees,
> apparently. Otherwise, it's the only Linux applet that works with my USB
> adapterss (Zydas, and Ralink <Asus>)
>
>
My Ubuntu machine does not and have not done any of those things. Lucky me,
huh? I have approximately 6 or 7 detectable WAPs in my neighborhood and that
excludes my own. Ubuntu detected them all then waited for me to manually
connect to one of them. Yes, that was the case right after install. After I
connected to my own AP (Ubuntu automatically detected my WPA2 status), Ubuntu
displayed a keyring for me to password protect my settings. Not once has
Ubuntu attempted to connect to any other AP except my own and I had performed
no profile type configuration. I'm using Feisty Fawn (7.04), of course. In
the meantime, my assessment of your situation is the same as Mr.
Liebermann's. By the way, what version of Ubuntu are you using?

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