From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 Description of problem: /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifup-wireless tries to set the ESSID to 'any' if none is given in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. This is not appropriate for the netwave that does not support setting ESSID. This does not hamper the functionality in any way but leads to an ugly error message. This may in turn lead the user to wonder wether all went well, when in fact it did. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert an Xircom Netwave in a pcmcia slot 2. Execute ifdown on the assigned ethernet device 3. Execute ifup on smae device Actual Results: [root@dexter init.d]# ifup eth1 Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. [root@dexter init.d]# Expected Results: No error should have been given. Additional info:
This error message has been silenced in CVS - will be in 8.17-1.