Thank you for the explanation. This indeed solves the problem but it also shows that there is a grave issue in the user interface for this task. Actually it should be possible to select a wifi network and add settings in place like being able to right click in the network list. I hope this will be fixed in the future as disabling, saving (bad if you forgot it) is not that Ubuntu ease of use it could be. But really good to know that there is already a proper way.

Best wishes for 2008!

in the end, save this as a ‚location‘, so the next time you get there, you can just select it from the list (oh, you did save your original config, didn’t you? – to easily switch back & fort).

i do this all the time with my laptop from work depending if i’m working from home or not.

no command line needed.

About the strange choices: From some point of view every decision might look strange but thats the deal with compromises I guess.

thanks for the hint, I’ll give a try. You are definitely right when saying that it is a bad sign when working around an application. In spite of that I just wanted to show a way of keeping the default software and having the ability to switch temporary.

Thanks again, I’ll report back.

– remove network manager
– add the following repo -> deb http://apt.wicd.net feisty extras
-reload packages
-install wicd

Sit back and wonder why gnome chose network manager when wicd is obviously best of breed…

Any interface where you have to use a command-line to get things done just ain’t right!