Change the wireless connection to manual to select the network you want, but then to do that you need to login. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Lemmons</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@lemmons.name">
paul@lemmons.name</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ok, this is either something so trivial that everybody but me knows the
<br>answer or I have lost the skill of searching Google. I am hoping that is<br>the former, not the latter.<br><br>I have a laptop. It's only connection is a wireless one.<br>I have a networked disk drive (MyBook World II) that offers SMB shares
<br>I can mount the shares easily once I am logged in<br><br>That is all good. Now I want to makes some of the shares available all<br>of them time. For example, I have installed backuppc (and like it so<br>far) and would like my backups to go to the mounted drive. Here is where
<br>I run into the problem. I don't connect to a network unless I am logged<br>in because knetworkmanager does the search and connects me to whatever<br>network I am closest to at the time.<br><br>There in lies my problem, I want my cake (network connection before I
<br>login) and to eat it too (be able to have it search for wireless<br>networks and connect appropriately)<br><br>Has anybody else solved this problem?<br><br>--<br>Sometimes I wonder. Were our faith able to stand upright and look around, would it be looking down at the mustard seed or standing in awe of the height and bredth of it.
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