Madwifi (and other wireless) Success - version mismatch fix

[Rick Johnson]

I incoherently wrote:

> It seems that glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.1.43.src.rpm provides 2.4 kernel 
> headers within /usr/include/linux. Included with this package is version 
> 15 of the wireless headers - wireless.h.
> 
> It seems these headers are also included with the kernel package itself 
> within /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/build/include/linux. I boldly 
> removed /usr/include/linux, replacing it with the linux directory found 
> in the path listed above, then rebuilt the wireless-tools package from 
> the SRPM, and installed. I was then able to get my wireless interface to 
> come up with WEP without an error message about the version mismatch.

The version included with the 2.6 kernel is version 16, which is what 
drivers are compiled against. Sorry for the lack of clarity. It's late :-)

-Rick

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Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson at medata.com
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