First thanks for the response.
i have looked in the pined messages for a relevant setup guide, couldn't understand which one to you, if anyone can reefer to a specific link it would be great.
i will try to explain the problem i think i have:
i changed the SSID of the pineapple to be called "FREEWIFI", so far so good.
i have a testing laptop that was connected before to my home wifi, say it has an SSID called "HOMENET"
i logged into pineapple on port 1471 and turned on karma.
i turned in the wifi on the testing laptop, expected it to think it is connected to HOMENET but actualy be connected to FREEWIFI.
what actually happened is that the testing laptop couldn't connect to HOMENET (it was down...) so he connected to FREEWIFI instead.
im trying to understand what is wrong in my setup.
regards.