On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 00:48 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 11:14 +0100, kilroyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Pass the ESSID to the card.
> >
> > This allows 'iwlist eth1 scan essid <essid>' to work, and will help
> > with routers setup not to broadcast the ESSID.
>
> That's a nice thing to have, but it doesn't seem to work on x86_64 (I
> didn't try other platforms). I tried wireless-tools 30.pre6 instead of
> 29, but it broke the output completely:
>
> # iwlist eth1 scan
> *** Please report to jt@xxxxxxxxxx your platform details
> *** and the following line :
> *** IW_EV_LCP_PK2_LEN = 4 ; IW_EV_POINT_PK2_LEN = 8
>
> eth1 Scan completed :
> Cell 01 - Address: 00:19:5B:56:FC:73
> ESSID:off/any/hidden
> Mode:Master
> Frequency=2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
> Signal level:-29 dBm Noise level:-81 dBm
> Encryption key:E0
> Extra:
> Cell 02 - Address: 00:15:6D:53:9A:CA
> ESSID:off/any/hidden
> Mode:Master
> Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
> Signal level:-49 dBm Noise level:-80 dBm
> Encryption key:E0
> Extra:
>
>
> > + if (priv->scan_mode & IW_SCAN_THIS_ESSID) {
>
> The debug output shows that the about condition is never true with
> either version of iwlist. The command is:
>
> iwlist eth1 scan essid foo
That code looks right, since srq->flags is getting copied into
priv->scan_mode.
Maybe the wireless-tools breakage you're experiencing is causing this to
fail on x86-64? Are you using 64-bit wireless-tools and a 64-bit
kernel, or 32-bit wireless tools with a 64-bit kernel?
Dan
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