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wireless-tools package

  1. Bug #281755
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 281755

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

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)?