Allocation failure scanning for APs in RHEL6
Issue
- Request for backport of Fedora BZ 534003 to RHEL6 - Original bug description follows:
- I'm at the customer's location sitting around with hundreds of APs around me. Network Manager failed to connect to anything, and when I try to determine why I get:
[root@pgpdev warlord]# iwlist wlan0 scan
print_scanning_info: Allocation failed
- I can manually ifup and iwconfig to get on the network, but not being able to scan is a MAJOR issue.
- iwlist wlan0 scan fails in high-density AP area
- We have scripts using iwlist wlan0 scan to check availability of certain wireless networks. However, when there are a great number of APs around, only the error "print_scanning_info: Allocation failed" is printed.
- There's already a patch available in upstream and this is also being tracked for Fedora at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534003.
- Please backport the fix for RHEL 6 to allow the local script to use iwlist wlan0 scan.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- wireless-tools-29-2.fc9.i386
- NetworkManager-0.7.1-1.fc10.i386
- wpa_supplicant-0.6.4-3.fc10.i386
- compat-wireless-2.6.31-rc4
- iwl3954 driver
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