[Voyage-linux] voyage-0.5.2 incompatibility of wireless-tools and madwifi driver

[Kim-man 'Punky' Tse]

Hi Beat,

0.5.2 is released with wireless-tools version 29 for sure.  It just that 
I forgot to upload the package to 0.5 repository.  They were uploaded now.

$ tar -jtf voyage-0.5.2.tar.bz2|grep libiw
voyage-0.5.2/var/lib/dpkg/info/libiw29.shlibs
voyage-0.5.2/var/lib/dpkg/info/libiw29.list
voyage-0.5.2/var/lib/dpkg/info/libiw29.postinst
voyage-0.5.2/var/lib/dpkg/info/libiw29.postrm
voyage-0.5.2/lib/libiw.so.29

$ cat voyage-0.5.2/voyage.dpkg-l |grep wireless
ii  wireless-tools                    
29-1                                 Tools for manipulating Linux 
Wireless Extens

There is no plan to build the backported wpa_supplicant for etch, or 
have to wait until voyage 0.6.

Regards,
Punky

Beat Meier wrote:
> Hello again Punky
>
> Thanks for info about the sources of kernel.
> Some more question. You wrote in the release notes of 0.5.2  that
> incompatibility complains between wireless drivers and wireless tools 
> is solved.
> Nevertheless I have the following error on 0.5.2 I downloaded some 
> time ago.
>
> iwconfig output
> Warning: Driver for device ath0 has been compiled with version 22
> of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
> Some things may be broken...
>
> Do you have updated the same tar on the server with the same version 
> after updating
> 0.5.2 or is 0.5.2 always the same version (which I hope) on the server?
> I have the following packages installed:
>
> wireless-tools                    28-1                     
> madwifi-modules-2.6.23-486-voyage 0.9.4~rc2-1+5.0-1
> madwifi-tools                     0.9.4~rc2+dfsg-1
> wpasupplicant                     0.5.5-2
> hostapd                           0.5.5-3.1                           
> hostap-utils                      0.4.0-1
>
> So the driver seems to be compiled with an very old version.
> Question: On the compile platform have you installed still the version 
> 20 of /usr/include/linux/wireless.h
> or /usr/include/wireless.h  of orig debian etch installation?
> For compiling the wireless stuff this file should be update to the 
> same as the wireless tools which are compiled
> I think (at least I did always this in the past)
>
> And last question:
> Do you have a respository for beta packages like new version of 
> wireless-tools with madwifi and hostapd/wpa_supplicant?
>
> Thanks and greetings
>
> Beat
>
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