Re: Connection sharing bug

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 00:06 +0100, Gonsolo wrote:
> Am 01/27/2010 11:43 PM, schrieb Dan Williams:
> > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 21:16 +0100, Gonsolo wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I encountered another Network Manager bug with connection sharing.
> >>
> >> After I shared my UMTS connection via WLAN and suspended my notebook, I
> >> can't find my WLAN connection again. Instead, a new unreadable network
> >> can be seen. It seems like a internationalization or Unicode problem.
> >>
> >> An image of the connections after three suspends can be seen at
> >> www.gonsolo.de/nm/NM-Bug.png
> >
> > That's a bug with wpa_supplicant and I believe it was fixed a while ago
> > (by me).  What supplicant version are you using?
> >
> > commit 8f0836f0d925733de91944e19a5757e61da40b30
> > Author: Dan Williams<dcbw redhat com>
> > Date:   Wed May 27 20:55:15 2009 +0300
> >
> >      wext: don't force-disconnect in ad-hoc mode
> 
> 
> Thank you, I use 0.6.9-3ubuntu1 from the latest Ubuntu release. I am 
> going to report that issue to Ubuntu with your fix.
> 
> By the way, I downloaded wpa supplicant from 
> git://w1.fi/srv/git/hostap.git and your fix is recorded as commit 
> 64a04447c3d2248ab1aac7f6c220346dad0e1921 .

That's 'master' which is the 0.7.x series; the commit I reference is
from hostap-06.git which is the stable 0.6.x series.  The commit is in
both.

It appears that the fix is part of wpa_supplicant 0.6.10 so your version
is just a bit too old :)

Dan