Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 61613
need kernel wireless.h v12
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:41:04 EDT
Description of Problem: glibc-kernheaders 2.4-7.11.i386.rpm on Hampton beta 3 (and whatever is on Hampton beta 2) includes a copy of linux/include/linux/wireless.h, version 11. The kernel has version 12, causing a mismatch that breaks iwconfig. iwconfig complains about this mismatch. On my Dell Latitude C400 which uses the wvlan_cs driver, this mismatch causes me to not be able to make changes via iwconfig (I can't turn off the encryption key, but can modify some other fields, while the essid field generally has garbage in it). Copying linux/include/linux/wireless.h to /usr/include/linux per the instructions at http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html allowed me to rebuild wireless-tools so that iwconfig works again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
As a follow-on: I copied /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/wireless.h to /usr/include/wireless.h, and did an rpm --rebuild wireless-tools- 23.1.src.rpm (which built fine), then an rpm -Uvh -- force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/wireless-tools-23.1.i386.rpm. That worked fine too. But, /sbin/iwconfig eth0 still won't let me set the encryption key 'off'. :-( Wireless tools v24pre5 built from source tarball works fine. That includes wireless.h v14, but by default uses whatever is in <linux/wireless.h>, which in this case is now v12.
I happen to have done this 3 days ago ;)