Your message dated Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:52:48 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#573327: No longer occuring has caused the Debian Bug report #573327, regarding wireless-tools: iwconfig prints garbage ESSID with valid networks, prints OK with nonsense ESSID to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: wireless-tools Version: 30~pre9-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Ever since I upgraded my laptop from CentOS 5.3 to Debian squeeze, I have not been able to use the supplied wireless card. Platform is Lenovo x200s with: iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300AGN REV=0x24 The OS is Debian "squeeze" with the latest updates applied running a custom kernel stripped down to match the laptop's hardware and mission: uname -a Linux assassin 2.6.33 #27 SMP Tue Mar 9 17:02:11 PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux iwconfig --version iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 30 Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v22. Kernel Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v22. wlan0 Recommend Wireless Extension v21 or later, Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v22. Assassin is a dual-boot machine and the hardware works fine under Windows 7. Under linux it scans just fine too: Cell 02 - Address: 06:21:91:D2:8C:2F Channel:6 Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Quality=67/70 Signal level=-43 dBm Encryption key:off ESSID:"Religion: Crutch or Myth?" Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Mode:Master However when I assign an ESSID to the interface and check it with iwconfig wlan0 essid "Religion: Crutch or Myth?" iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"f2\x0D\xB71X\xA3Z%]\x05\x17X\xE9^\xD4\xAB\xB2\xCD\xC6\x9B\xB4T\x11\x0E \x82tA!=\xDC\x87" Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off However if I add an extra '?' mark it sets and reads just fine: iwconfig wlan0 essid "Religion: Crutch or ?Myth?" iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"Religion: Crutch or ?Myth?" Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libiw30 30~pre9-4 Wireless tools - library wireless-tools recommends no packages. wireless-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:08:16AM -0700, Paul Pomes DVM wrote: > After receiving several updates through update-manager and doing a > complete re-build of the 2.6.32.3 kernel, the problem has > spontaneously resolved. Thank you for your assistance. Ok, therefore closing this bugreport. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <[email protected]>
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