On 12/22/05, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:57:19PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>
> > Package: wireless-tools
> > Version: 27+28pre11-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > If I do
> >
> > $iwlist ath0 scan
> > Warning: Driver for device ath0 has been compiled with version 19
> > of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 18.
> > Some things may be broken...
>
> The wireless-tools just doesn't have support for WE-19 yet.
>
> > Segmentation fault
> [...]
> > ii madwifi-source 0.svn20051110-1 source for the Multiband Atheros Driver
> > for WiFi (madwifi)
>
> And the MadWiFi driver is still very alpha, they haven't released a
> stable version yet. Either you have to wait for both MadWiFi and
> wireless-tools to mature, or you could try to compile an older version
> of the MadWiFI source code that doesn't use WE-19.
>
FWIW, upgrading to the latest madwifi drivers solved this problem.
$ sudo dpkg -l madwifi-source wireless-tools
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Description
+++-====================================-====================================-========================================================================================
ii madwifi-source 0.svn20051110-2
source for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi
ii wireless-tools 27+28pre13-1
Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
Now when I run 'iwlist scan' there is no segmentation fault.
raju
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