Description of problem: Since kernel 2.6.17.x uses WE-20 and the current version of Wireless Tools with FC5 uses WE-19, you get a "Warning" message when using iwconfig as follows: Warning: Driver for device wmaster0 has been compiled with version 20 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19. Some things may be broken... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): wireless-tools-28-0.pre13.5.1 How reproducible: see below. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Load your wireless drivers as normal 2. type iwconfig Actual results: Warning: Driver for device wmaster0 has been compiled with version 20 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19. Some things may be broken... Expected results: Normal output, without the above message. Additional info:
In addition to the warning reported above when using kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5, wireless fails to function for me -- no APs are discovered by NetworkManager or iwlist scan. But I'm using ndiswrapper. It loads normally but reports: kernel: ndiswrapper (wrap_ndis_worker:1147): wlan0 is being reset I rebuilt the wireless-tools srpm using the stable version 28 release tarball (wireless_tools.28.tar.gz). This does fix the warning about WEXT versions, but still won't function for me on kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 (same errors). 28-stable does work fine on kernel-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5, as did 28-pre13.
Similar here with ipw2200: the warning is printed with the new FC5 kernel, though I can't tell if anything stopped working or not because I'm not near any usable AP at the moment. Rebuilding wireless-tools with version 28 also helps me. Please update wireless-tools in Fedora, 28 is now stable upstream version anyway.
(In reply to comment #2) > Similar here with ipw2200: the warning is printed with the new FC5 kernel, though > I can't tell if anything stopped working or not because I'm not near any usable > AP at the moment. I can confirm that despite the warning the ipw2200 is still working. Nevertheless please rebuild the wireless tools because such warnings shouldn't be in a stable version of a distribution.
Same here, the new stable version includes wireless.20.h among other fixes. Rebuilding the package did solve my ipw2200 problems. Please rebuild.
You can also update devel tree from version 28-pre16 to 29-pre10 which add support for WE-21 and many other new features and bug fixes.
*** Bug 199019 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 201223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Not seeing this anymore in FC6, which contains wireless-tools-28-1.fc6.