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
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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
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