Control: tag -1 confirmed pending Control: found -1 1.108+deb7u1 Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2014-08-08): > > I cannot connect to any wifi network when entering a manual ESSID. > > After entering the ESSID I always get the message: > > > > Network chosen: (null). Proceeding to connect. > > > > There seems to be a small error in wireless.c where the ESSID entered > > by the user is never stored anywhere (producing the "(null)" above). > > I've attached a patch which fixes this issue for me. > > Uh-oh, that looks like a quite silly bug indeed! > > If nobody else gets to it before me I'll try to reproduce locally and > confirm the patch. (I haven't looked at the surrounding code yet.) Bug indeed confirmed for jessie and wheezy; patch confirmed as well (on jessie only for now), judging by the INFO output change only… > [ Hopefully kvm USB passthrough works better than last time I tried. ] … because I can apparently only list available ESSIDs; actually connecting fails to I couldn't test a full installation. I'll push the patch shortly to git, upload to sid, and push a backport to the wheezy branch as well. Many thanks again! Mraw, KiBi.
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