Preventing connection to open wireless networks

[Alatorre, Michael]

On 8/16/07 8:44 PM, "R.L. Grigg" <newslists at autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 15, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Karl Kuehn wrote:
> 
>> 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".
> 
> On my system it has only the option: "Keep looking for recent
> networks". Does "recent" restrict itself to the set of preferred
> networks?
> Russ
> 
IIRC, if you've upgraded to Tiger from an earlier OS version, you get this.
The fix is to create a new network location. Then, the options Karl
describes will become available. HTH
-- 
Michael Alatorre
EIS Liaison Analyst
Department of Medical Affairs
Cedars-Sinai Health System
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