Ubuntu
gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #13972
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 13972

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Martin Willemoes Hansen (mwh) wrote :

(In reply to comment #3)
> Hi,
>
> could you tell if the ESSID is actually changed after closing the tool (iwconfig
> should tell you this), and please also check that you can change the ESSID from
> the command line (iwconfig <iface> essid <essid>) without problems
>
> what's strange to me is that this "ANY" default ESSID isn't stored in any place
> of the network tool

As I wrote in the first post, the essid is stored in /etc/network/interfaces.

I have no problem in changing the essid on the commandline.

Bellow is the section from my /etc/network/interfaces file:

iface eth0 inet dhcp
        # wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
        wireless-mode managed
        wireless-essid any
        wireless_essid tsunami

Seems like both any and my favourit essid is present. I guess that the network
tool just picks the first essid ie any.