Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:58:28 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Thomas Tuttle <thinkinginbinary@gmail.com>
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       "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
       Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>,
       James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2
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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.
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