Package: wireless-tools
Version: 30~pre9-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Ever since I upgraded my laptop from CentOS 5.3 to Debian squeeze, I have not
been able to use the supplied wireless card. Platform is Lenovo x200s with:
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300AGN REV=0x24
The OS is Debian "squeeze" with the latest updates applied running a custom
kernel stripped down to match the laptop's hardware and mission:
uname -a
Linux assassin 2.6.33 #27 SMP Tue Mar 9 17:02:11 PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
iwconfig --version
iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 30
Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v22.
Kernel Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v22.
wlan0 Recommend Wireless Extension v21 or later,
Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v22.
Assassin is a dual-boot machine and the hardware works fine under Windows 7.
Under linux it scans just fine too:
Cell 02 - Address: 06:21:91:D2:8C:2F
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=67/70 Signal level=-43 dBm
Encryption key:off
ESSID:"Religion: Crutch or Myth?"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
However when I assign an ESSID to the interface and check it with
iwconfig wlan0 essid "Religion: Crutch or Myth?"
iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn
ESSID:"f2\x0D\xB71X\xA3Z%]\x05\x17X\xE9^\xD4\xAB\xB2\xCD\xC6\x9B\xB4T\x11\x0E
\x82tA!=\xDC\x87"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
However if I add an extra '?' mark it sets and reads just fine:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "Religion: Crutch or ?Myth?"
iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"Religion: Crutch or ?Myth?"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libiw30 30~pre9-4 Wireless tools - library
wireless-tools recommends no packages.
wireless-tools suggests no packages.
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