Bug 64312 - wireless-tools and kernel modules are compiled with different extensions.
Summary: wireless-tools and kernel modules are compiled with different extensions.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: wireless-tools
Version: null
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-05-02 08:30 UTC by Ivo Sarak
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:27 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-08-30 01:04:33 UTC
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Description Ivo Sarak 2002-05-02 08:30:04 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; T312461)

Description of problem:
There are an incompatibilities between kernel modules and iwconfig application.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Install a supported wireless card, load a module for it and run iwconfig.

Actual Results:  Warning : Device eth2 has been compiled with version 211
of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12.
Some things may be broken...

And according to iwconfig every channel frequency is 2.412GHz.


Expected Results:  No warning messages and a correct freqency printout.
Comment 1 Ivo Sarak 2002-05-02 08:32:16 UTC 
I used a airo.o module.
Comment 2 Dax Kelson 2002-08-13 15:02:34 UTC 
I see the same thing here with Limbo2 and my wavelan_cs card:

# iwconfig eth1
Warning : Device eth1 has been compiled with version 13
of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12.
Some things may be broken...
Comment 3 Scott Russell 2002-08-30 01:04:27 UTC 
Confirmed with -18.5 rawhide kernel and (null). Updating bug info to version (null)
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2002-08-30 01:22:16 UTC 
This should be fixed with wireless-tools-25-1
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