Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points.

From	HASM <hasm@example.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linus, alt.os.linux.networking, alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject	Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points.
Date	2019-07-21 10:01 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> writes:


me> but wireless-tools, of which iwlist is a part of, hasn't been
me> updated since 2007, while iw seems to have recent changes.

wu> Actually not correct, but also not too far out.
wu> -rw-r-----  1 unruh unruh 62089 Nov 24  2009 iwlist.c

Fedora ships v29, the last official release, which is from 2007.  Ubuntu
ships v30-beta, from 2009, which never became official.

This page sums it up:

  https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/407517/why-did-wireless-tools-version-30-become-a-permanent-beta

Curiously, one of the comments to the first answer claims:

  The reason Ubuntu (and pretty much all distros I know of) provide
  version 30 beta is because that version fixes a critical bug that was
  in version 29, which caused the iwconfig to fail if there were too
  many networks in the area due to a buffer overflow. The Github repo
  for wireless tools does not show this, but here's the relevant patch
  from Arch 

Thus they claim that fixes your problem, though I guess it does not.

-- HASM

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iwlist dies with toomany access points. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-19 20:58 +0000
  Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2019-07-19 14:32 -0700
    Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-20 08:48 +0000
      Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2019-07-20 08:16 -0500
      Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2019-07-20 07:45 -0700
        Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-20 15:38 +0000
          Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2019-07-21 10:01 -0700
            Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-21 19:28 +0000
            Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-22 19:13 +0000
              Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2019-07-22 15:11 -0700

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