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Package: netcfg
Version: 1.117
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i patch
Hi,
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.
James
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- a/wireless.c
+++ b/wireless.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ get_essid:
goto get_essid;
}
- strdup(client->value);
+ interface->essid = strdup(client->value);
memset(wconf.essid, 0, IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE + 1);
snprintf(wconf.essid, IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE + 1, "%s", interface->essid);
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Source: netcfg
Source-Version: 1.118
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
netcfg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 757478@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (supplier of updated netcfg package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:47:27 +0200
Source: netcfg
Binary: netcfg netcfg-static
Architecture: source
Version: 1.118
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Description:
netcfg - Configure the network (udeb)
netcfg-static - Configure a static network (udeb)
Closes: 757478
Changes:
netcfg (1.118) unstable; urgency=high
.
* Fix support for entering an ESSID manually, it was previously
getting ignored (Closes: #757478). Thanks to James Cowgill for the
report and the patch!
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