comp.os.linux.networking

inuY4sha@email.it writes:

>I'm having A LOT of troubles with wireless tools, wireless extensions
>and uCLinux with kernel 2.4.19-uc1;

And you are running such an ancient kernel why? It is not surprizing that
your wireless driver is declared ancient.

>From what I see after I modprobe the module for setting up the
>wireless interface, if I type iwconfig I get the following data:

># iwconfig
>.....
>Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with an ancient
>version
>of Wireless Extension, while this program support version 11 and
>later.
>Some things may be broken...

Precisely. What is y our question?



>wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS Nickname:""
> Access Point: 02:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate=281.147 Mb/s
>Sensitivity=282145732/0
> RTS thr=281147292 B Fragment thr=281147292 B
> Power Management:on
> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0

>Now if I give the command "iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc" for instance
>the result is that the 1st byte of the Access Point address changes
>from 02 to 01 (and back to 02 with "iwconfig wlan0 mode managed").
>This led me to think that the structures defined in wireless
>extensions were not aligned probably due to version mismatching.

>So I checked the linux/include/linux/wireless.h in kernel source files
>and I found the line

> #define WIRELESS_EXT 13

>while atm I'm crosscompiling iwtools using a "wireless.h" file with
>the line

> #define WIRELESS_EXT 17

>The first thought.I had was to find a wireless_tools.13.tar.gz version
>of the wirless tools... but... I couldn't find any!

>So I tried to replace linux/include/linux/wireless.h (version 13) with
>the version 17. As a result when trying to compile the kernel I got an
>error in this file linux/include/net/iw_handler.h stating that the
>structure iw_event was being redefined; to avoid the issue I
>*commented* the following lines in the file iw_handler.h

>317 struct iw_event
>318 {
>319 __u16 length; /* Lenght of this stuff */
>320 __u16 event; /* Wireless IOCTL */
>321 union iwreq_data header;/* IOCTL fixed payload */
>322 char extra[0]; /* Optional IOCTL data */
>323 };

>and was able to compile the kernel and the modules.
>Again, after having switched to the brand new kernel and modules, I
>got the same problem ... so I wonder how can I solve it ?

>Thanks for your time ! I hope you can help me with this, because I've
>got no clues about the solution.

>Cheers
>RM