Hello all,
for some time there was an open bug in Madwifi related to 32 charater ESSIDs.
Doing some investigations I found that the same bug is present with an ipw2200bg
WLAN interface and Linux 2.6.20 (I tried the Ubuntu-7.0.4 CD).
Please try
iwconfig wlan0 essid 12345678901234567890123456789012
vs
iwconfig wlan0 essid 1234567890123456789012345678901
Using 32 character ESSIDs was fine with 2.6.18 (the last version I tested).
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Regards
Joerg
See http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.devel for the Madwifi bug report
See http://madwifi.org/ticket/930 for the Madwifi bug ticket
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