Bug 199019

Summary: wireless-tools needs to be updated because of new kernel
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stuart Jansen <bugzilla+redhat>
Component: wireless-toolsAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Description Stuart Jansen 2006-07-15 18:14:25 UTC 
Description of problem:

For a while now, FC5 has been pushing out kernels with a newer version of the
wireless extensions than what wireless-tools supports.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@vision ~]# uname -a
Linux vision.buscaluz.org 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 #1 Tue Jul 11 22:55:46 EDT 2006 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux

[root@vision ~]# iwlist eth1 scan
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 20
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
Some things may be broken...


How reproducible:

always
Comment 1 Oisin C. Feeley 2006-08-03 01:01:25 UTC 
That's apparently still the case (Aug 1st 2006), but it's also apparently the
case that the scans work anyway!

[root@larry ush]# uname -a
Linux larry 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 #1 Sat Jul 1 13:03:45 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux

[root@larry ush]# /sbin/iwlist scan lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

Warning: Driver for device wifi0 has been compiled with version 20
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
Some things may be broken...

wifi0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:66:00:93:A2
                    ESSID:"nutmeat"
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Signal level=-36 dBm  Noise level=-72 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:resp_rate=10

wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:66:00:93:A2
                    ESSID:"nutmeat"
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Signal level=-37 dBm  Noise level=-72 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:resp_rate=10
Comment 2 Radek Bíba 2006-08-19 00:07:54 UTC 
This is a known problem. Thanks for your report anyway.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196536 ***