Do you have more information about this limitation so that someone can report it to the appropriate package?
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org> wrote: > tags 900742 + wontfix > thanks > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 09:27:18PM -0700, Ernesto Alfonso wrote: > > > Package: wireless-tools > > Version: 30~pre9-12+b1 > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > iwlist fails with the error "Failed to read scan data : Argument list > too long" when there > > are too many reachable access points. I've encountered this issue > consistently at certain hotels, > > and I've had to resort to using iw instead, as this stackoverflow > question from March 2017 answer suggests: > > The problem is unfortunately a limitation of the Wireless Extensions > kernel API that wireless-tools uses, so there is nothing that I can do > to fix it. If iw works for you, then by all means keep using it. > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, > Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org> >
