32 chars long SSID causes lots of warnings

[Hernando Torque]

Binary package hint: network-manager

NM connects to a 32 char long SSID without a problem (nm-applet shows it too), but syslog shows a lot of following warnings:

Oct 11 15:20:26 chaos NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_wifi_get_ssid(): Couldn't get SSID: 7
Oct 11 15:22:02 chaos last message repeated 10 times
Oct 11 15:23:02 chaos last message repeated 10 times
Oct 11 15:24:02 chaos last message repeated 10 times
...

iwconfig too doesn't show the SSID.

Using up-to-date Intrepid devel version,

network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Hardware: Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG with iwl3945 driver.

Network information: Linksys WRT54GL@DD-WRT v23 SP2, WPA2-PSK with AES, tried different channels as this fixed another bug but nothing changed.

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

Still happening with

network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

As iwconfig doesn't show the ESSID, this may also be a problem with wireless-tools. iwlist shows the ESSID, though.

The error number indicates that the argument list is too long - maybe an ESSID "lenght" vs. "length + 1" problem (I could find some old 2004 mailing list discussions about that)?

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

Still happening with

network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

No surprise - happening with:

network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

and

wireless-tools:
  Installed: 29-1.1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 29-1.1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 29-1.1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Changed package to wireless-tools as the problem seems more likely to come from this cornern (or the kernel or who knows - not me).

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

Seems fixed now. Marking as invalid.