Wireless Tools and kernel-2.6.17-1.xx[Scanned]

Chris Bradford chrisbradford at cambridge-news.co.uk
Sat Jun 24 10:27:48 UTC 2006


Does this kernel include built-in support for the bcm43xx wifi chips?

If so how should I proceed after having used the bcm43xx-fwcutter to get 
mine up and running?

The reason I ask is:

http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

Many thanks,

-Chris

Albert Graham wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:27:13AM +0100, Albert Graham wrote:
>>
>>  > Since the 2.6.17 kernel update, I'm getting the following message;
>>  >  > "Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with 
>> version 20
>>  > of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
>>  > Some things may be broken..."
>>  >  > So I assume we'll need and updated wireless-tools package using 
>> WE-20.
>>
>> Looks that way (though it's usually a harmless albeit noisy warning).
>> Can you file a bz against wireless-tools please ?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>>         Dave
>>
>>   
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196536
>
> done.
>



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