Package: wicd Version: 1.7.2.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I used wicd to connect to a wireless network that wicd showed as having the ESSID "réseau sans fil". The connection failed with an authentification error. While wicd was running "iwlist scanning" gave: Cell 07 - Address: 00:0C:F6:xx:xx:xx Channel:11 Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11) Quality=55/70 Signal level=-55 dBm Encryption key:on ESSID:"r\xE9seau sans fil" Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s Mode:Master Extra: Last beacon: 2524ms ago IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : CCMP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Note that the ESSID contains an e-acute encoded in iso_8859-1 (latin1). Wicd fails to connect. I ran iwconfig while wicd was trying to connect and saw wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"r\xC3\xA9seau sans fil" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Note that the ESSID contains an e-acute encoded in utf-8. wicd has read an accented character in iso 8859-1 and has transformed it into utf8. This is, of course, wrong. wicd should use the ESSID as reported by iwlist. When I took the configuration file in /var/lib/wicd/configurations and corrected it to use the correct ssid, wpa_supplicant connected without problem. My Nokia N900 was able to connect to the same network without problem. It showed the network name as "r?seau sans fil". thanks Stuart Pook -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages wicd depends on: ii wicd-daemon 1.7.2.3-1 ii wicd-gtk [wicd-client] 1.7.2.3-1 wicd recommends no packages. wicd suggests no packages. Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on: ii python 2.7.2-10 ii python-glade2 2.24.0-3 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3 ii wicd-daemon 1.7.2.3-1 Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends: ii gksu 2.0.2-6 ii python-notify 0.1.1-3 Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu1 ii dbus 1.5.12-1 ii debconf 1.5.42 ii ethtool 1:3.2-1 ii iproute 20120319-1 ii iputils-ping 3:20101006-1+b1 ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp3-client] 4.2.2.dfsg.1-5 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian2 ii net-tools 1.60-24.1 ii psmisc 22.16-1 ii python 2.7.2-10 ii python-dbus 0.84.0-3 ii python-gobject 3.2.0-3 ii python-wicd 1.7.2.3-1 ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-8 ii wpasupplicant 0.7.3-6 Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends: ii wicd-gtk [wicd-client] 1.7.2.3-1 Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests: ii pm-utils 1.4.1-9 Versions of packages python-wicd depends on: ii python 2.7.2-10 ii python2.6 2.6.7-4 ii python2.7 2.7.3~rc2-2.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org