On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:42 +0200, Peter Koellner wrote: > > found a number of problems with testap/testssid:
Please, don't file multiple bugs under a single report: it makes it
difficult for me to track whether things are fixed, and to relate
conversations about a particular issue.
> - iwlist wlan0 scan sometimes misses the net I am looking for.
There is unfortunately nothing I can do about that unless you can
provide me with some guidelines about how it can be reliable. For
example, in my own case, iwlist ... scan always fails unless I
"ifconfig ... down; sleep 4; ifconfig ... up" first. Bizarre, but it
works :-)
The point is though that I can only make these sorts of empirical
observations about hardware I have access to. If you can work out any
further details regarding this, can you please create a new bug report
with what you've discovered.
> - IDs including a space like "wireless Extreme" can only be passed to
> testap using a wildcard pattern, but then the scan problem kicks in, and
> it looks as if then the wildcard pattern is used as ESSID.
> I was able to change the network id as a workaround.
There is supposed to be code in testap to handle this, and I can't see
where it's going wrong. If you are able to duplicate the problem for me
can you file a new bug, and provide the output of "whereami
--scriptdebug", to assist me in solving it. Send that to me privately
if you are worried about exposing it to the world!
> - My wlan interface requires a
> iwconfig ${INTERFACE} essid on
> before
> iwconfig ${INTERFACE} essid ${ESSID}
>
> in the testap and testssid scripts to work, or else the essid will
> not be set.
> I changed the tests accordingly and then they worked.
I've added this (thanks) and it will be in 0.3.21 which should be out in
a few days.
Regards,
Andrew.
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