Package: wireless-tools Version: 23-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream There seems to be a discrepancy between what iwconfig thinks is the max length and what the kernel thinks is a max length for a node nickname, at least for airo.c. I've sent an email to the brave guys listed as airo.c authors in that file, and they will hopefully tell me why they have a limit of 16 bytes when everybody has 32.
# iwconfig ap0 nick `perl -e 'print "A" x 17'`
Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) :
SET failed on device ap0 ; Argument list too long.
# iwconfig ap0 nick `perl -e 'print "A" x 33'`
Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) :
argument too big (max 32)
This is just to record that fact in our mighty BTS. JT is both an
airo.c author and the wireless-tools upstream, the upstream already
knows about it.
Cheers,
Jan.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux kontryhel 2.4.28-jan #2 Sat Nov 27 02:52:26 GMT 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2
Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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