Package: wicd-daemon
Version: 1.7.0-3
Severity: minor

wicd fails to associate with networks called "any" (e.g. Zurich
airport), because it calls

  2010/02/23 13:24:53 :: ['iwconfig', 'wifi', 'essid', 'any']

According to the manpage, it should use '--' before the ESSID name:

  iwconfig wifi essid -- any

Thanks,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.112        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.2.20-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.28       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dhcpcd                      1:3.2.3-5    DHCP client for automatically conf
ii  ethtool                     6+20091202-1 display or change Ethernet device 
ii  iproute                     20091226-1   networking and traffic control too
ii  iputils-ping                3:20071127-2 Tools to test the reachability of 
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  net-tools                   1.60-23      The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  psmisc                      22.10-1      utilities that use the proc file s
ii  python                      2.5.4-9      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-dbus                 0.83.0-1+b1  simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-gobject              2.20.0-1+b1  Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-wicd                 1.7.0-3      wired and wireless network manager
ii  wireless-tools              30~pre9-4    Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.10-1     client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends:
ii  wicd-cli [wicd-client]        1.7.0-3    wired and wireless network manager
ii  wicd-curses [wicd-client]     1.7.0-3    wired and wireless network manager
ii  wicd-gtk [wicd-client]        1.7.0-3    wired and wireless network manager

Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
ii  pm-utils                     1.3.0~rc3-2 utilities and scripts for power ma

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