after/while scanning for WLANs: wicd-client.py crashed with OverflowError in _method_reply_return()

[JoFT]

Binary package hint: wicd

wicd shows available WLANs in context menu of tray icon

but it does not show any WLANs in its main window (most of the time), so no configuration for a WLAN can be made

it crashed after hitting the Refresh button in the main window for example

wired connection works

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 14 08:52:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: wicd 1.6.1-3ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python -O /usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py']
SourcePackage: wicd
Title: wicd-client.py crashed with OverflowError in _method_reply_return()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare vboxusers