https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478513 Summary: iwconfig wlanX nick command breaks ifup Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1.2 Firefox/3.0.6 With the development of cfg80211 and its replacement of the old wireless extension implementation, the command "iwconfig wlanX nick blah-blah" is no longer implemented; however the following scripts still use it: /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifdown-wireless /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-wireless /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifstatus-wireless When the /sbin/ifup wlan0 command is given, it returns the following command 'iwconfig wlan0 nick <host-name>' returned Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. interface wlan0 is not up The fix is to remove the line "nick $WIRELESS_NICK" from the 3 scripts indicated above. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure the use of if-up for network devices. 2. Issue an ifup wlan0 command. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.