Package: wireless-tools
Version: 29-1
Severity: important
'iwconfig' when invoked with no arguments sometimes fails to
print the SSID of the currently associated AP. My seat-of-the-pants
guess is that it has something to do with the length of the SSID string.
Here's a session showing iwconfig associating with two different
APs. Both associate correctly, but only the first one prints out when
'iwconfig' is run with no arguments:
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walkies:~# iwconfig eth2
eth2 unassociated ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency=nan kHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:22 Missed beacon:0
walkies:~# iwconfig eth2 essid ewhac-air
walkies:~# iwconfig eth2
eth2 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"ewhac-air"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66:19:1E:C9
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=96/100 Signal level=-30 dBm Noise level=-31 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:57 Missed beacon:0
walkies:~# iwconfig eth2 essid "ERR:Buf overrun, restart scanner"
walkies:~# iwconfig eth2
eth2 IEEE 802.11g Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz
Access Point: 00:18:4D:38:B5:5D Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=98/100 Signal level=-25 dBm Noise level=-25 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:70 Missed beacon:0
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(Yes, that's really the name of my second AP.)
The interface in question is an Intel 3945 using the ipw3945
driver, version 1.2.2.
Please investigate this matter.
Thanks,
Schwab
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libiw29 29-1 Wireless tools - library
wireless-tools recommends no packages.
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