Bug 426688

Summary: NM fails to merge identical AP entries
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: 0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2007-12-24 12:10:41 UTC 
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.fc8
wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-19.fc8

Currently nm-tool reports the following, where "xx..." indicates entries I care
about, and "yy..." entries I don't:

  Wireless Access Points(* = Current AP)
    xxxxxx:          Infra, 00:00:00:00:00:00, Freq 0 MHz, Rate 0 Mb/s, Strength 0
    yyyyyy:          Infra, 00:19:yy:yy:yy:yy, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s,
Strength 43 WEP
    *xxxxxx:         Infra, 00:13:xx:xx:xx:xx, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s,
Strength 87

To the untrained observer, the first and third entries are clearly the same
since a) they share the same ESSID, and b) none of the values in the first entry
other than the ESSID (and the strength, if you happen to have a broken WLAM
driver) are valid.

Even better is when the following happens:
  Wireless Access Points(* = Current AP)
    *<hidden>:       Infra, 00:13:xx:xx:xx:xx, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s,
Strength 87
    xxxxxx:          Infra, 00:00:00:00:00:00, Freq 0 MHz, Rate 0 Mb/s, Strength 0
    yyyyyy:          Infra, 00:19:yy:yy:yy:yy, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s,
Strength 43 WEP
    *xxxxxx:         Infra, 00:13:xx:xx:xx:xx, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s,
Strength 87

In this case the first, second, and fourth entries are the same and should be
merged.

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ap_scan=2
network={
  ssid="xxxxxx"
  key-mgmt=NONE
  scan_ssid=1
}
Comment 1 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2008-01-13 04:19:49 UTC 
All of the sudden it seems to have disappeared.