Bug 25635

Summary:	Request an option to ignore some wifi connections
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jose Manuel López <joselp>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	fri
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	Drakconnect	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jose Manuel López 2019-10-30 15:28:50 CET

Description of problem: I've go to drakconnet for forget a wifi conection that don't use, but I can't a option for forget this wifi conection  without delete the conection interface.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Nageia 7 - Drakconnect.


How reproducible: Go to drakconnect and try forget a wifi connection.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to drakconnect.
2. Select wifi connection
3. I don't find the option for forget this connection.

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2019-10-31 10:25:34 CET

I cannot find the host package for this: it is *not* in drakxtools as it suggests; and I have no WiFi to investigate your problem. So please can you clarify:
- Whether the option you ask about was present in Mageia 6?
- Or are you asking for such an option?

If you do '# drakconnect -h' it outputs its options (not definitive), among which is '--del' = Wizard to remove a network interface. This seems to correspond to Mageia Control Centre - Network & Internet - Manage your network devices, there is 'Remove a connection' (which raises drakconnect).
Does this not do what you want?

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 2 Jose Manuel López 2019-10-31 15:08:42 CET

No, I don't think this option was in Mageia 6 either.

What I'm saying is that there should be an option to forget a wifi without having to remove the entire interface, because if I have several saved wifi connections and remove the interface, I delete them all, and what I want is to delete or forget a wifi connection without erasing the others. (the style of what you can do in android and also in Windows, which I do not like to say ...).

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

Thanks and greetings.

Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2019-11-01 10:39:42 CET

Thank you for the clarification, and apologies for asking something which would be obvious to a wifi user.
Changing the bug to an enhancement request as in comment 2 ; without knowing whether it is possible.

CC: lewyssmith => (none)
Summary: No there a option for forget wifi => Request an option to ignore some wifi connections
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
Severity: normal => enhancement
Priority: Normal => Low

Comment 4 David Walser 2019-11-01 20:37:37 CET

You can delete it manually by editing /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, but yeah I don't know of a way to do it through the GUI; it would be nice.

Comment 5 Jose Manuel López 2019-11-01 21:01:02 CET

Yes, Thats what I mean. It should have a GUI option for forget a conection wifi.

I think that it would be fine for the wifi users and the new users for Mageia

Comment 6 Jose Manuel López 2020-01-02 12:05:19 CET

Any news on this?

Is there a development plan for this?

Greetings!

Comment 7 Jose Manuel López 2020-06-03 16:40:33 CEST

Today, I tried to install networkmanager with the help of a fellow in Mageia telegram group.

It is easy to install it and I have been able to verify that with networkmanager I can "forget" a wifi network, without having to delete the entire interface.

It would be very difficult to replace the network Mageia applet with networkmanager ?? For Mageia 8?

Greetings!!

Comment 8 Jose Manuel López 2021-02-16 09:49:40 CET

Hi, 

This remain unresolved. We are about to see the release of Mageia 8, so we should consider this bug will don't solved to release of Mageia 8?

And, We should consider as new request for Mageia 9?

Greetings!!

Morgan Leijström 2021-02-16 14:29:00 CET

Version: 7 => Cauldron
CC: (none) => fri

Comment 9 Jose Manuel López 2023-10-31 17:33:19 CET

Unresolved since Mageia 7.... I have seen that if Plasma is installed from the live version, the plasma connection manager is installed instead of netapplet.

A user who wants to "forget" a Wi-Fi will find that they cannot do so with the current configuration in Mageia, installing from any ISO other than Live. Furthermore, it creates confusion that one package is installed in some ISOS and a different one in others.