How to connect WiFi to a specific AP?

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 12:03 PM Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:38:57 +0100, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 17:00, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> So that unfortunately did not work either.
> >
> >You could give the routers different SSIDs.
>
> Yes, but since the IoT device cannot be reached to set a new connection
> SSID I
> would have to change the main router's SSID, which would disrupt all other
> linux
> and other devices connecting just fine to the main router.
>
> The Linux machines I could possibly edit the wpa_supplicant.conf file on
> all of
> them and adding a copy of the existing connection entries with a new SSID.
>
> But all devices are not Linuxes, for instance my printers....
>
> So it is not really an option.
>

Many routers allow multiple SSIDs, so you might be able to create a second
SSID on the router you want to connect to preferentially.


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