Debian Bug report logs - #790108
man wicd-cli: mention --network does not refer to ESSID

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Package: wicd-cli; Maintainer for wicd-cli is Debian WICD Packaging Team <[email protected]>; Source for wicd-cli is src:wicd (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 08:45:05 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version wicd/1.7.2.4-4.1

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: man wicd-cli: mention --network does not refer to ESSID
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:42:33 +0800
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Package: wicd-cli
Version: 1.7.2.4-4.1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man8/wicd-cli.8.gz

On the man page please mention that --network does not refer to ESSID,

# wicd-cli --connect --network=430 --wireless
Invalid wireless network identifier.
# wicd-cli -l --wireless
#       BSSID                   Channel ESSID
0       10:7B:EF:0B:15:99       1       CHT4275
1       90:F6:52:BF:0D:82       4       430
2       78:54:2E:50:25:84       5       AB-AB
3       84:94:8C:3C:C6:D8       10      HITRON-C6D0
# wicd-cli --connect --network=1 --wireless
Connecting to 430 with None on wlan0
done!



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