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rkfsm
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Location: Charleston, SC, USA
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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject: Odd error with iwconfig [solved] |
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Whenever I run iwconfig, I get the error:
| Quote: | Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...
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My connection's reliability has gone way down. I'm always losing my connection since this error came up. Anyone know how to fix this?
(NetGear WG311v2 with the ACX111 chipset using ndiswrapper)
RK
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_loki_
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rkfsm
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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for your response. I tried searching the forum for that error and got no hits. hmmm....
Anyway, that did get rid of the original error and now, I get:
| Quote: | Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 18
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 17.
Some things may be broken... |
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_loki_
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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| what version of wireless-tools are you using? |
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golloza
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:39 am Post subject: |
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You need wireless-tools version 28-preX (masked).
| Code: | echo '=net-wireless/wireless-tools-28_pre8-r1 ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge wireless-tools |
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coplaniuk
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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I did the kernel patch as recommended by the thread posted above, and I updated to the wireless-tools 28_pre-r1. Still getting the error message about compiling vs. 18
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dextur
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Got the same error message when I upgraded to gentoo-sources 2.6.13 r3 today. Updated to masked wireless-tools 28_pre9 and then it worked again. |
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