Package: wireless-tools Version: 29-1.1 Severity: normal Attach: /home/master/foo
I'm in an area where there are _many_ different APs and SSIDs. In some places, the WiFi network works fine for me. Then something like 40 to 60 cells are listed. But in some places, "iwlist scan" returns "print_scanning_info: Allocation failed". Probably (but that is just a guess) there are even more cells found there and some fixed-size buffer overflows? I straced "iwlist scan" in that situation, and it tries to mmap 2^64 - ( 2^31 - 2^12 ) bytes of memory, which obviously fails... This looks like a 32 bit signed value under/overflow combined with a 64 bit unsigned over/underflow :-) The strace is attached. In the "not working situation", network-manager puts in the syslog: Aug 13 12:48:25 doggy NetworkManager: <WARN> request_and_convert_scan_results(): unknown error, or the card returned too much scan info: Argument list too long So maybe it is a hardware/firmware and/or driver problem _combined_ with an iwlist bug, I'm not sure. The situation certainly seems to be specific to my hardware, if the network were broken for everybody, there would be more complaining all around... This may or may not be linked to http://bugs.debian.org/532207. mas...@doggy:~$ lspci |grep -i wire 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5300 mas...@doggy:~$ dmesg |grep -i iwl [ 5.699090] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks [ 5.699165] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation [ 5.700114] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [ 5.700184] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 5.700211] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300AGN REV=0x24 [ 5.719423] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels [ 5.719591] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X [ 6.307849] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs' [ 20.282177] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode [ 20.428529] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode firmware file req failed: -2 [ 20.428604] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode [ 20.569551] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Loaded firmware iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode, which is deprecated. Please use API v2 instead. [ 20.569629] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Firmware has old API version. Expected v2, got v1. New firmware can be obtained from http://www.intellinuxwireless.org. [ 20.569710] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 5.4.1.16 [ 20.727513] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio [ 20.727605] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc [ 20.727685] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX [ 20.727771] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX [ 1100.647302] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio [ 1100.647353] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc [ 1100.647396] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX [ 1100.647439] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX mas...@doggy:~$ dpkg -l 'firmware-iwlwifi'|tail -n1 ii firmware-iwlwifi 0.17 Binary firmware for Intel Wireless 3945, 4965 and 5000-series -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.9-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libiw29 29-1.1 Wireless tools - library wireless-tools recommends no packages. wireless-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
