[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#465338: Bug#465338: network-manager: garbled names in list of networks

[Michael Biebl]

Tormod Volden wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.7.0~svn3202-1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> This can be a problem with the card driver (prism2_usb/p80211) but the output from iwlist scan 
> seems ok. The drop-down list (of nm-applet) with the available networks has just bogus names 
> with many non-ascii characters (the squares with hex digits). The number of entries seems 
> reasonable, but is not equal to the number I get from iwlist scan.
> 
> After I connect to my own network (which is hidden and does not appear in the list first) it 
> appears in the list correctly, among the other broken ones.

This is probably due to an upgrade of wpasupplicant (could you try to
downgrade wpasupplicant to confirm that).
Please also note that the 0.7.0 pre packages are not (yet) officially
available from the Debian archive. So using the BTS for (my) unofficial
packages is probably not such a good idea.

Cheers,
Michael

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