[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#461500: Gets confused by access points with 00:00:00:00:00:00 as mac

[Sjoerd Simons]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.5-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

  This might be a kernel issue. But from time to time access points turn up
  with all 0's as mac address and no essid. Unfortunately NM tries to merge
  access points with no essid with the list of allowed access points. They only
  have user address set and no global address, so the first allowed access
  point always matches and it's essid is set to the invalid ap... Later on
  access points are merged on among other things essid's and some properties
  merged (i'm unsure if this is a smart thing to do, but that's another
  story).. Obviously merging an invalid with valid access points leaves a big
  mess, especially since it's always a valid access point in your allowed list.

  What happened often in practise is that this caused NM to think that the
  network it should connect to was unencrypted, while it is.. Causing trouble
  and user frustration :(

  Anyway long story, small patch. This just makes NM drop scanned access points
  if their mac address is all 0's.

  Sjoerd

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc7-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser              3.105               add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                 1.1.2-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd               3.0-2               D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                  0.5.10-5            Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown             0.6.8               high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute              20071016-3          Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arping       3:20071127-1        Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                2.7-6               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.1.2-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.74-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11          1.4.0-3             LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.14.4-2            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0        1.4-2               library for common error values an
ii  libhal1              0.5.10-5            Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29              29-1                Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1-pre6          1.0~pre6-6          Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0          0.6.5-3             network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base             3.1-24              Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant        0.6.1~git20071119-1 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.5-3    network management framework (GNOM

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