#4267 HIGH Not Tri: networks all appear twice in mesh view

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#4267: networks all appear twice in mesh view
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   Reporter:  sj        |       Owner:  marco        
       Type:  defect    |      Status:  new          
   Priority:  high      |   Milestone:  Not Triaged  
  Component:  sugar     |     Version:               
 Resolution:            |    Keywords:  blocks?:8.2.0
Next_action:  diagnose  |    Verified:  0            
  Blockedby:            |    Blocking:               
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Comment(by mtd):

 Replying to [comment:16 wad]:
 > Ah, but there are no hidden access points where I make my tests.

 Oh - that's pretty odd if I am also to understand that nm-tool.log came
 from such a test; the "Watlington" AP is shown on line 25 as "Hidden".

 > On the other hand, running "iwlist eth0 scan" suspiciously returns four
 networks --- two of which have no ESSID, appear on channels where OTHER
 LAPTOPS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH APs, and have "Extra: olpc-mesh" appended!

 Weird!

 > It appears that to trigger the bug, you need other laptops using the
 same AP as you ?

 Ah.  Well I have that situation at home now (XO and another laptop both
 connected to a hidden AP).  Still can't reproduce it.

 > This problem has always been reported in situations where either there
 might be a hidden AP or there were multiple laptops connected to the AP.
 It looks like NM/firmware is suddenly reporting hidden APs for these
 meshes...

 Interesting.

 I've got my home AP hidden now but I'm still not seeing the problem :(.  I
 am seeing NM do really unusual things though (will attach logs if anyone
 wants to sympathize).

 Basically if the dbus command I sent reports fewer APs than lines you get
 from

 {{{
 grep Net\( /home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log
 }}}

 ...then Sugar is still my suspicion; otherwise NM is reporting something
 wrong IIUC.

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