Public bug reported: When I migrate from Oneiric to Precise, wicd don't find hidden wifi network. Visible network are grayed. THis is the wicd-gtk traces :
$ wicd-client Has notifications support True Loading... Connecting to daemon... Connected. displaytray True Done loading. warning: ignoring exception org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.TypeError: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 751, in _message_cb _method_reply_return(connection, message, method_name, signature, *retval) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 254, in _method_reply_return reply.append(signature=signature, *retval) TypeError: expected string without null bytes refreshing... ESSID : MY_NETWORK ESSID : <hidden> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/gui.py", line 587, in refresh_networks tempnet = WirelessNetworkEntry(x) File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/netentry.py", line 882, in __init__ "essid")) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.TypeError: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 751, in _message_cb _method_reply_return(connection, message, method_name, signature, *retval) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 254, in _method_reply_return reply.append(signature=signature, *retval) TypeError: expected string without null bytes ** Affects: wicd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996998 Title: wicd doesn't find networks after inserting hidden essid To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wicd/+bug/996998/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs