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dabd

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Registered: 2008-11-17

Posts: 109

iwlist scan fails when there too many wireless networks

$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
print_scanning_info: Allocation failed

wicd uses iwlist to scan networks but iwlist fails when there are too many networks. This seems to be an old issue.  Is there a fix for this?

Thanks.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: iwlist scan fails when there too many wireless networks

There's a fix yes. For wireless_tools-29 there's a patch somewhere. Or you install wireless_tools-30pre9