Network-manager displays wrong ESSID name

[Bwoaas]

At my University we have two different wifi systems. An visible, protected network named 'WLAN', and a hidden, free accessible network called 'GUEST'.
Normally I connect to this hidden GUEST network, and this works fine. However, the network-manager applet shows that I am currently connect to the WLAN network, while I am not. I discovered that both networks share the same address, so it appears that network-manager uses the address to determine the current connection, and not the name I used to connect.

The attachment shows both the output of 'iwconfig' and a mouse hovered over the network-manager icon. It can be seen that network-manager lists a different ESSID.

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Package: network-manager
Versions:
0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/nl.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_intrepid-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)

[Lupine (thelupine)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the /var/log/syslog to your bug report as an attachment? Also you can submit more information for it by looking to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager . Do this while changing between the WLAN and GUEST network, so that the developers will have that information. Thanks in advance.

[Bwoaas (breuderink)]

Unfortunately I cannot connect to the WLAN Network, so I can only upload the syslog for connecting to the GUEST network (attached).

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Intrepid reached EOL on April 30, 2010.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with Lucid and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please either a) upgrade and test or b) increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]