Re: iwconfig seg-faults

[Erik Mouw]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:34:20PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
> 
>         SuSE 7.1, wireless-tools-20-5, kernel 2.4.5-pre3:
> 
> /root# gdb iwconfig
> [...]
> (gdb) run wvlan0
> Starting program: /usr/bin/iwconfig wvlan0
> wvlan0    IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"ISocRob"  Nickname:"Gedeao"
>           Frequency:2.437GHz  Sensitivity:1/3  Mode:Ad-Hoc  
>           Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Bit Rate:2Mb/s   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off   
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:500
> 
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0xc22ab05c in ?? ()
> 
>         Can't get any further useful info from gdb.
> 
>         Is this a known "issue"?

Yes, recompile iwconfig against your current kernel solves the problem
(you need to put a -I flag in the wireless-tools Makefile).

Erik

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