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Description of Problem: iwconfig from wireless-tools does not match the current kernel's pcmcia drivers. consequently, some things don't work...like WEP encryption, it seems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ## /home/stig > iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. Warning : Device eth1 has been compiled with version 13 of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12. Some things may be broken... eth1 [...] ## stig/ix (pts/3) -- 0 jobs -- Sat Nov 30 -- 23:25:08 ## ## /home/stig > wh iwconfig iwconfig is hashed (/sbin/iwconfig) -- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24075 Mar 21 2002 /sbin/iwconfig -- Name : wireless-tools Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 23 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 2 Build Date: Thu 21 Mar 2002 08:09:47 AM PST Install date: Sat 05 Oct 2002 12:02:54 PM PDT Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: wireless-tools-23-2.src.rpm Size : 108868 License: GPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> URL : http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html Summary : Wireless Ethernet configuration tools. Description : This package contain the Wireless tools used to manipulate the Wireless Extension. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get specific statistics for wireless networking How Reproducible:
This is not going to be fixed at this point for these releases; the mismatch is fixed in rawhide for the kernel that is there.