Monday, 30 September 2013

Disable automatic connect in Infrastructure mode?

Disable automatic connect in Infrastructure mode?

I installed pfsense on a new system with an atheros based wlan card. I
configured this card as WAN, it was automatically put into infrastructure
mode which has one problem: it simply connects to the next SSID it finds!
I do not want any automatic connect from my pfsense system to some random
WLAN!
Quote from the GUI about the SSID field of my WAN interface (=WLAN card):
Note: Only required in Access Point mode. If left blank in Ad-hoc
or Infrastructure mode, this interface will connect to any available SSID
Is it possible to disable this behaviour before even configuring my WLAN
card as WAN, so that - on my next attempt to install a new system -
pfsense will never ever connect randomly to a WLAN!? Using the intial,
console based interface configuration, is it possible to configure my WLAN
card as WAN but letting the interface disabled until I configured it
properly?

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