Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:08:51 -0800 | Subject | Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2 | From | Jean Tourrilhes <> |
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:58:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:24:45 -0500 > Thomas Tuttle <thinkinginbinary@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2. I'm not sure if this bug is in the kernel, wireless tools, or the > > ipw3945 driver, but I haven't changed the version of anything but the > > kernel. When I do `iwconfig eth1 essid foobar' something drops the > > last character of the essid, and a subsequent `iwconfig eth1' shows > > "fooba" as the essid. And it's actually set as "fooba", since I had > > to do `iwconfig eth1 essid MyUsualEssid_' (note underscore) to get on > > to my usual network. > > This could be version skew between the wireless APIs in the kernel.org kernel, > the wireless userspace, the out-of-tree ipw3945 driver and conceivably one > of the git trees in -mm (although I suspect not the latter). > > I don't know, but I know who to cc ;) Probably they will want to knwo which > version of wireless-tools userspace you are running.
Yes, it's a problem because the driver is out-of-tree. I sent a patch to the maintainer to make the driver compatible with kernel before/after, and it's actually integrated in the version 1.1.2 of the driver (Nov 1st). So, please upgrade your driver and tell us how it works...
Jean
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