Network Manager fills in a three digit SSID to Unicode

[Andrew Rufkahr]

Steps to replicate:
1. Connect to an SSID with ONLY three numbers in the nm-applet menu.
2. Input password, wait for it to fail.
3. Note the new ssid it asks for is now a unicode symbol.

What should happen:
The SSID should be the SSID, dangit! :p

Workaround: rename the SSID in the Network Connections manually and set it to automatically connect.

The symbol is consistent with the SSID put into unicode. Example, 323 as an ssid would be U+323 in unicode. This seems like an escape failure in naming the ssid. The SSID code is consistent with the settings in the menu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: network-manager 0.9.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Mon Sep 5 02:03:20 2011
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110904)
IpRoute:
 default via 10.0.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static
 10.0.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.1.6
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Adrian Suarez (asuarez985)]

New here so I'm not sure if I am reporting this in the right place but this is the closest I could find to the issue I'm experiencing. This bug is also present in the final version of 11.10 both 32 and 64 bit. You can change the SSID manually back to what it should be. It will then connect. This has to be done every time the machine is restarted or woken up from sleep or hibernation. It seems like the change doesn't stick.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Marking as a duplicate of bug 874328 for which a fix is available in a PPA.