Description of Problem: Whilst trying to set up wireless ethernet, got this message when I did iwconfig eth0 with a Buffalo Airstation card on a vaio with fairfax 1 on it. Warning: Device eth0 has been compiled with version 52 of wireless extensions while we are using version 11. Some things may be broken. How Reproducible: Happened every time with this card when messing about trying to get it to work. This card worked fine on RH 7.0. Steps to Reproduce: 1. laptop install (textmode). 2. inserted pcmica card (a different one) and did netcfg and then /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart. Didn't do much. Ejected that card, stuck the buffalo in, /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart and... 3. iwconfig eth0. Actual Results: The error message about version 52 (!) above. Additional Information: bug 47636 might be relevant: it describes the earlier troubles with the first card. Dunno.
hmm, time to rebuild wireless-tools. will be fixed in 21-3.