Travelers have Wi-Fi detritus.
A common scenario: I am connecting to the same network but need to establish fresh credentials with a hotel or cafe network.
How it works on Mac or PC:
You just tell the WiFi manager to forget the network, then you reconnect. Then you get the usual set of prompts asking for room number, email or phone number, whatever, then you get issued updated Wi-Fi credentials. I honestly don’t even know how it works. I just know if you go to the same cafe or hotel and it’s saved in your networks, you have to purge it in order to reconnect and have it work again.
How to do this on Garuda’s Wi-Fi manager?
I know Garuda just bundles their favorite Wi-Fi network manager, so they don’t have control over how it works. But I assume there is a way to purge all information, including cached information, about a network so you can create a fresh connection.
Yes, I’ve tried it from the GUI
Yeah, I’ve right clicked the network and went to “Edit Connection” and clicked the minus/delete button. It looked like it removed it. But when I reconnected, I was not prompted with the normal prompts to establish fresh credentials. As a result, it looks like I am connected but I am not. I cannot use any browser or any command line that requires a connection.
I don’t know how it works from the command line, so that could be an easy way out.
I read the related posts here and went looking for “/etc/” for something around networks. I found NetworkManager and honestly it’s empty.
So, anyone know how handle this?
Purge any previous Wi-Fi connection, reconnect and start fresh?
