Bug 115707
| Summary: | iwconfig version mismatch | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michael Hunter <mph> |
| Component: | wireless-tools | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | htmlspinnr, jeff, rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 26-4 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-03-15 17:30:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 117020 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 114963 | ||
Kernels affected include 2.6.2-1.81. This is preventing the wireless network from coming up. Error messages include: ifup: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A): ifup: SET failed on device eth0 ; Invalid argument. That error is actually unrelated, most likely. It seems as if /usr/include/linux/wireless.h (provided by glibc- kernheaders-2.4-8.43) is older than that included with the kernel source. Removing /usr/include/linux and replacing with that provided in /lib/modules/<kernel-ver>/build/include/linux, then rebuilding the wireless-tools seems to solve this problem. It would make sense that glibc-kernheaders needs to be updated to include headers from the 2.6 tree. Another choice is to build forcing version 16 using a locally provided header - see package README for details. This involves passing FORCE_WEXT_VERSION=16 to the make and make install commands. This allows the makefile to use a locally provided wireless.h of the correct version. This would, however, lock the package into the present kernel 2.6 (or 2.4 kernels which used version 16 of wireless.h if such exist) and remove the dependancy on glibc-kernheaders, but not really solve the problem in the end. Fixed in -4. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031019 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: iwconfig complains that the driver for device (orinco pcmcia card) has been compiled for version 16 of the wireless extension but that the tools are only using verison 15. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): stock fedora core2 test 1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./sbin/iwconfig 2. 3. Additional info: