Re: essid with spaces?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 21:35 -0500, Will Dyson wrote:
> On 1/20/06, Ian Campbell <ian dal-acm ca> wrote:
> >         A wireless network I use has a space in the essid. Every time
> > NetworkManager tries to associate to it, it crashes. The association
> > succeeds, NetworkManager restarts, and everything continues as it was
> > before.
> >
> >         Is there any reason NetworkManager would crash on a network with a
> > space in the essid?
> 
> Resend to the list:
> 
> I also see this behavior, only on networks with a space embedded in
> the ESSID. I'm running a CVS checkout from yesterday (1/21)

Is there any chance that the problem is a non-UTF8 character rather than
a space?  I checked out spaces today with my WRT54G and NM appeared to
deal with them just fine.  It's known to crash with some non-UTF8 ESSIDs
though.  What's the essid that crashes for you?

Dan