retitle 655159 wicd doesn't support ESSIDs with NULL bytes tags 655159 confirmed upstream forwarded 655159 https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/907528 thanks
Hello Sebastian, On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:12:33 +0100, Sebastian Bachmann wrote: > I now had this problem several times with different Networks, so i think its > really a bug in the software rather than a bug with a special network. This is a known bug. Unfortunately, it's a bug in python-dbus, rather than in WICD. I "fixed" it upstream by not supporting networks with NULL bytes in them, i.e. it won't (hopefully) fail hard like this, but you won't be able to connect (or do anything) with them. > Mostly all hidden Networks give their Name as \x00 in length of their name. This really sounds like a bug in your wifi driver. I haven't ever seen networks with \x00 using my laptop, and it has been reported only one other time. See the upstream bugreport I linked at the beginning of this mail. Let's try to investigate this further, maybe we can overcome the driver bug. Do you see \x00 only with hidden networks? Have you ever encountered a non-hidden network with that NULL byte? Are you sure that it the router isn't broadcasting '\x00'? If this latter one is true, then I fear there won't be space for workarounds :( Have a nice evening, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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