iwconfig essid eats the last char and i cant get a wlan connection to my linksys or fon-router this happened directly after my last "emerge --update world" maybe 2-3 weeks ago this is how it looks like: ------->8------->8------->8------->8------->8------->8------->8------->8------- bison ~ # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. ieee0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 radio off ESSID:off/any Nickname:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:nan kHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:off Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key: xxxxxxx Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 bison ~ # iwconfig wlan0 essid slaxor_w54 bison ~ # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. ieee0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 radio off ESSID:"slaxor_w5" Nickname:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:nan kHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:off Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key: xxxxxx Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 -------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<------- oh and just if you wonder: i renamed the devices via udev ------->8------->8------->8------->8------->8------->8------->8------->8------- emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-suspend2-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-suspend2-r1 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/service" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/rc.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/wget" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://85.25.128.62 http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LINGUAS="de en de_DE" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X acpi alsa alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol apm bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdinstall cjk cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dllloader dlloader dmxi dpms dri dvb eds elibc_glibc emboss encode examples firefox flac foomaticdb fortran fritzcapi_cards_fcusb gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gzip iconv idn imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics ipv6 ipv6arpa isdnlog ithreads jikes jpeg kernel_linux libg++ libwww lighttpd linguas_de linguas_de_DE linguas_en logrotate mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre png pppd qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU utf8 vhosts video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_svga video_cards_vesa vorbis xinerama xml xorg xprint xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS -------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<------- any help would be appreciated guten rutsch
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159421 ***
Dupe.
