Bug#541648: wireless-tools: in presence of many APs/SSIDs, "iwlist scan" tries to allocate nearly 16EiB of memory

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:07:24AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > This may or may not be linked to http://bugs.debian.org/532207 Installing the new firmware mentioned in #532207 (and rmmod/modprobe the driver so that it gets loaded) does not address this problem. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#541648: wireless-tools: in presence of many APs/SSIDs, "iwlist scan" tries to allocate nearly 16EiB of memory

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_sca