Bug 1415717
| Summary: | iwlist scan fails with too many AP | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Henrique Martins <fedora> |
| Component: | wireless-tools | Assignee: | Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 25 | CC: | dcbw, linville, lkundrak |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Last Closed: | 2017-12-12 10:47:38 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Henrique Martins
2017-01-23 14:13:15 UTC
The patch may help some situations, and we could potentially apply it to wireless-tools. However, it only works to a certain point, and it is already common to overflow a 64k buffer with the WEXT scan request. Unfortunately, this cannot easily be fixed in wireless-tools due to the older non-extensible nature of the kernel's WEXT API. I would suggest that instead of 'iwlist wlan0', you use 'iw dev wlan0 scan' which is the replacement that uses the much more extensible nl80211 kernel API. I'd also recommend using 'iw' for anything you previously used iwconfig/iwlist/iwevent/etc for, as it is a much more capable tool and supports many of the options that the iwconfig tools cannot due to their older API. You may have a wifi card whose driver doesn't support nl80211, but these are a small minority. If you do, however, there is no good solution except to ask the provider of that wifi card (or the upstream kernel community) to add nl80211 support to that driver. This message is a reminder that Fedora 25 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 25. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '25'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 25 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 25 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-12-12. Fedora 25 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |