This is exactly the same for me. I enter the essid in the network manager but when I iwconfig it is truncated. I pad with an extra character and all works OK.
I have a belkin f5d6020 v3 pcmcia card that uses the rtl8180 driver. I am using the latest beta of Feisty as at 13 April through a distribution upgrade on Xubuntu -- ESSID gets truncated https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/74672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs