On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:06 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > The drivers return a 32-byte array containing arbitrary values to > NetworkManager, which is technically correct. It's up to NM and > userspace to deal with this somehow. 802.11 specifies nothing about > encoding or anything other than a max length of 32 bytes. Right-o. And it's probably only chance coincidence that most wireless dev manufacturers allowed text input for the ESSID (or maybe it was a common stroke of brilliance). At any rate, because of a lack of specification, we have to deal with partial chaos (a recurring theme. Yay well-written specs!). -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
