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ilike

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-01

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Gnome 3 / Networkmanager-Bug: SSID of wlan keeps changing to "*"

Hey,
On my laptop, the ssid of my wlan-connection in the NetworkManager keeps changing to an asterisk ("*") which means I can't connect to it. The only way I found to connect, is to execute "sudo network-manager-applet" from terminal and change the ssid back to the right value. (but as I said it keeps changing back to * afterwards)

The ssid is recognized correctly in the menu:
http://i.imgur.com/nG1XI.png
http://i.imgur.com/jveqL.png

But it's wrong in my settings:
http://i.imgur.com/z5lEA.png
http://i.imgur.com/kncQF.png

It worked with Gnome 3.0, so i'm pretty sure it's a bug in a later version. (current version is 3.2) Did anyone drive into a similar problem?

Thanks for help / let me know if you need more infos!
PS: I also reported the bug here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660232

Last edited by ilike (2011-09-29 15:39:37)

ilike

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-01

Posts: 15

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Re: Gnome 3 / Networkmanager-Bug: SSID of wlan keeps changing to "*"

The problem seemed to be that I had a numerical SSID (which worked before). I changed my SSID now so that it contains only alphabetical characters and it works now.