[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#431102: wpasupplicant: New version doesn't allow empty essid?

[graziano]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.0-1
Severity: normal


Hello there,

since last update, I cannot any longer connect to general public network
using the clause with an empty essid. To be clear I have 

network={
        id_str="dhcp"
        key_mgmt=NONE
}

in my wpa configuration file but I cannot connect to a NETGEAR station
untill I hadd

network={
        ssid="NETGEAR"
        id_str="dhcp"
        key_mgmt=NONE
        priority=5
}

to the configuration. Used to work flawless before.

thanks
graziano

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc4-git2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.103      Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.5-11     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.1.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libncurses5                   5.6-3      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-3      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8e-5   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages wpasupplicant recommends:
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.0.5-3    DHCP client

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