After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 389574 - Unable to connect to SSID containing asterisks (*)
Unable to connect to SSID containing asterisks (*)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 399292
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: general
0.6.6
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-12-25 22:25 UTC by Jonh Wendell
Modified: 2007-12-29 20:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Jonh Wendell 2006-12-25 22:25:04 UTC 
Bug report opened in Ubuntu (http://launchpad.net/bugs/75554)

Tried connecting to an SSID configured as "* we like baseball *"

NetworkManager applet (nm-applet) in Gnome fails to properly connect and get a DHCP address. However, naming it something without asterisks works fine. And iwconfig is able to associate properly. So, it appears that the problem lies in network-manager-gnome or one of it's libraries...

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=edgy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.10"
--
Kristian Hermansen
Comment 1 Christopher Aillon 2007-12-29 20:18:16 UTC 
While not a 1 to 1 dupe, this should be fixed by handling SSIDs as byte arrays, so marking as dupe of 399292 with some more analysis.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 399292 ***