wireless extension version

I'm trying to get my wireless card (Linksys WPC11 - v3) work on a
Sony Vaio under Fedora 1 and kernel 2.6. It usses hermes, orinocco
and orinocco_cs. All is well, except that I get this message:

Warning : Device eth1 has been compiled with version 16
of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 15.
Some things may be broken...

Who's "we"? Who's using version 15? I would ignore this message if
it occured only once, but it is posted as long as the card is up.
How do I fix it?

Thanks!

Silviu Minut <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

Hi,

> I'm trying to get my wireless card (Linksys WPC11 - v3) work on a
> Sony Vaio under Fedora 1 and kernel 2.6. It usses hermes, orinocco
> and orinocco_cs. All is well, except that I get this message:
>
> Warning : Device eth1 has been compiled with version 16
> of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 15.
> Some things may be broken...

I only know these version warnings from the userspace tools iwconfig,
iwspy,.... The kernel has a certain API version for the wireless
extensions which are simply a common interface of all wireless-drivers
so you can set SSID, key, freq, etc. with the same commands.

Where do you get the warning messages? syslog? When configuring? If
it's working and its only for configuring it's save to ignore the
warning. The change from 15 to 16 is not for basic functionality but
to get more information out of the drivers/cards.


> Who's "we"? Who's using version 15? I would ignore this message if

good question. If you would have told where the warnings show up I
might have tried to guess.

> it occured only once, but it is posted as long as the card is up.
> How do I fix it?

sounds strange -- mixup of versions in the kernel itself? Did you
patch the kernel? but 2.6.1 should have the regular orinoco drivers
(are in 2.4.2x).

grabbing a new wireless-tools might or might not help.


K.-H.

> Where do you get the warning messages? syslog? When configuring? If
> it's working and its only for configuring it's save to ignore the
> warning. The change from 15 to 16 is not for basic functionality but
> to get more information out of the drivers/cards.

I start a gnome terminal, then

su -
(note the -)
redhat-config-network & (yes, that's lame, I know)

Then I configure the wireless card and save, restart the network:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart.

Then the warning message is displayed repeatedly in the root shell.


> sounds strange -- mixup of versions in the kernel itself? Did you
> patch the kernel? but 2.6.1 should have the regular orinoco drivers
> (are in 2.4.2x).
>
> grabbing a new wireless-tools might or might not help.
>
>

I'm using kernel 2.6, specifically so I don't have to patch.
Now that you mentioned the wireless tools, I see that
/usr/include/iwlib.h includes <linux/version.h> and

12) silviu:~> more /usr/include/linux/version.h
#define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.20"
#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132116
#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))

If I remember correctly /usr/include/linux used to be a link to
/usr/src/linux-<version>/include/linux. In my case,
/usr/include/linux is a directory. Who knows how many other things
are screwed up. Darn!