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Ran into a bug in the new graphical installer on WiFi setup

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 35622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Hugo Saavedra <hm <at> listen.systems>, Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#35622: Ran into a bug in the new graphical installer on WiFi setup
Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 00:32:43 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> I’ve tried “connmanctl services xyz” on the bare metal with an actual
> WiFi device.  For me there’s always a “Name = something” property, and
> the “something” appears to be the SSID of the access point.
>
> Could it be that the access point does not advertise an SSID, and thus
> its “Name” property is the empty string or is missing altogether?

I tried to reproduce that in a VM by running hostapd and using the neat
‘mac80211_hwsim’ kernel module.

However, hostapd’s config file doesn’t allow empty SSIDs.  So I set the
SSID to “ ” (a single space), but that’s correctly handled by the
installer.

Ludo’.

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