Traincoding: network-manager annoyance
xs4all, the best ISP in the Netherlands, now offers free wifi at KPN hotspots to its members. This is excellent, since 3 stations I pass when traincoding now have wifi I can use, so I can use documentation when hacking and not look like an arse because I don’t read docs.
The latest quick hack didn’t work properly at the 2nd station, so I looked up documentation, found my error and now I present: nm_unset - a very simple tool with which you can remove wifi networks for network manager from gconf. I simply got tired of having to use gconftool-2 –recursive-unset /system/networking/wireless/networks/$ssid all the time (and of having to explain how to do this to new users on #ubuntu). I’m really hoping that they soon provide something in n-m for this so I can toss this out again.
NM 0.7.0 will include a profile management tool. The version in SVN actually has a GUI interface it just doesn’t do anything /yet/.
On a side note why would you need to remove the network, is there something different between each AP that causes NM to fail to connect?