Your message dated Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:52:48 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#573327: No longer occuring
has caused the Debian Bug report #573327,
regarding wireless-tools: iwconfig prints garbage ESSID with valid networks, 
prints OK with nonsense ESSID
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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.

-- no debconf information



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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:08:16AM -0700, Paul Pomes DVM wrote:

> After receiving several updates through update-manager and doing a
> complete re-build of the 2.6.32.3 kernel, the problem has
> spontaneously resolved. Thank you for your assistance.

Ok, therefore closing this bugreport.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org>

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