Preventing connection to open wireless networks

Karl Kuehn larkost at softhome.net
Wed Aug 15 13:37:33 PDT 2007


On Aug 15, 2007, at 3:08 PM, R.L. Grigg wrote:

> Is there a way on OSX 10.4.10 to disable it from connecting to open  
> wireless networks? Ie to make it only able to connect to WPA  
> networks? System Prefs doesnt seem to have that option.

	It is a two step process:

System Preferences->Network->Show:Airport->Airport (tab)
	By default, join: Preferred Networks (once you have them in there)

Then click on "Options..." and set "If no recent networks are found:"  
to "Keep looking for preferred networks".

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		Karl Kuehn
			larkost at softhome.net





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