Package: wicd-daemon
Version: 1.7.0+ds1-5
Severity: normal
At a hotel, the ESSID was "Réseau de Hotel du Nord". (It was an "Apple
Airport Something" access point.)
"iwlist scan" showed the essid as "R\xC3\xA9seau de Hotel du Nord" and
wicd saved it in the wpasupplicant configuration in this "\x" escaped
format ("R\xC3\xA9seau de Hotel du Nord") while the UTF-8 encoded ESSID
("Réseau de Hotel du Nord") would have been the right format.
It seems as if wicd should decode the "\x" escapes in ESSIDs back to
real characters/bytes when saving the wpasupplicant configuration to
make such setups work.
I use wicd-curses to select and configure the wireless network. Not sure
if the bug is in wicd-daemon or in wicd-curses. Please feel free to
reassign the bug appropriately.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (110,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.149 Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii dbus 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii iproute 20100519-3 networking and traffic control too
ii iputils-ping 3:20100418-1 Tools to test the reachability of
ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp3-clie 4.1.1-P1-7 ISC DHCP client
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii net-tools 1.60-23 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii psmisc 22.11-1 utilities that use the proc file s
ii python 2.6.5-5 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-dbus 0.83.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii python-gobject 2.21.1-2 Python bindings for the GObject li
ii python-iniparse 0.3.2-1 Module to access and modify config
ii python-wicd 1.7.0+ds1-5 wired and wireless network manager
ii udhcpc 1:1.15.3-1 Provides the busybox DHCP client i
ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-5 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel
ii wpasupplicant 0.6.10-2 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends:
ii wicd-cli [wicd-client] 1.7.0+ds1-5 wired and wireless network manager
ii wicd-curses [wicd-client] 1.7.0+ds1-5 wired and wireless network manager
Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
ii pm-utils 1.3.0-2 utilities and scripts for power ma
Versions of packages wicd depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.149 Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii dbus 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii iproute 20100519-3 networking and traffic control too
ii iputils-ping 3:20100418-1 Tools to test the reachability of
ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp3-clie 4.1.1-P1-7 ISC DHCP client
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii net-tools 1.60-23 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii psmisc 22.11-1 utilities that use the proc file s
ii python 2.6.5-5 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-dbus 0.83.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii python-glade2 2.17.0-2 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii python-support 1.0.9 automated rebuilding support for P
ii python-urwid 0.9.9.1-1 curses-based UI/widget library for
ii udhcpc 1:1.15.3-1 Provides the busybox DHCP client i
ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-5 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel
ii wpasupplicant 0.6.10-2 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
wicd-cli depends on no packages.
Versions of packages wicd-curses depends on:
ii python 2.6.5-5 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-urwid 0.9.9.1-1 curses-based UI/widget library for
Versions of packages python-wicd depends on:
ii python 2.6.5-5 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-support 1.0.9 automated rebuilding support for P
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