Public bug reported:
I upgraded from edgy to feisty a couple days ago, and found that my
wireless network connection no longer worked. It seemed that whatever I
used as my ESSID would get truncated by one character:
$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys
$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 802.11b/g ESSID:"linksy"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.427 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
Retry:on 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:0 Missed beacon:0
In order to get connected, I had to append an extra character to the
correct ESSID:
$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid linksysZ
$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 802.11b/g ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.427 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
Retry:on 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:0 Missed beacon:0
I posted about this bug on Ubuntuforums, and another user tracked down
the apparent source of the bug in wireless_tools_28, in the file
iwconfig.c. Here's a link to his findings:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1849606&postcount=2
** Affects: wireless-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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ESSID gets truncated
https://launchpad.net/bugs/74672
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