Re: Wavelan IEEE driver

Tobias Ringstrom (tori@tellus.mine.nu)
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:51:14 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jurgen Botz wrote:
> and appears to work. I did observe a problem with iwconfig dumping
> core, but it seems to do its job before it dies, so this may be non-
> critical.

Make sure you compile wireless-tools using the right headers. You must
manually insert -I/path/to/running-linux-version/include in the Makefile.

This is due to a bad (non-existing) ioctl backward and forward
compatibility, and is being worked on. Basically, you cannot use the
tools compiled with one version of the wireless extension headers on a
kernel with another version of the wireless extensions. The symptom is at
best a SEGV, but you may also get strange values.

/Tobias

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