Thanks Andrew. On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 11:48 +0300, Andrew wrote: > On 27/09/10 23:36, davidMbrooke wrote: > > What I discovered is that libnl v1.1 is rather old - 2008 as far as I > > can tell - even though that is the newest pre-packaged download > > available at the libnl site. The libnl v2 code is available by > > downloading HEAD from their git repository, and the latest changes are > > from April 2010 so it is reasonably stable. I did get libnl v2 to build > > before I understood the problem with v1 and the .pc file, though this > > needed some work with automake / aclocal. > > > IMHO it isn't good idea to switch on libnl v2 - because it still in > development stage, not declared as 'stable', and even in such > 'leading-edge' distro as Gentoo there is still libnl-1.1. Good point! Fedora 13 (also "leading edge") still includes 1.1 as well. I agree we should stick with v1.1 for now.
> > I wonder whether the newer libnl might help with some of the other WiFi > > issues... or we could just switch to the new libnl anyway. > libnl isn't source of wifi pb. I successfully ran hostapd with other > environment built on gcc-3.3.3 (~month ago) with kernel+modules that was > built by gcc-4.3.2 (built by hand) - and it works OK. > > Does anyone know if it is just hostapd which uses libnl (apart from kismet)? > > > No, there is at least one other package that uses libnl - one of > packages that I updated during last month. I can't mention it's name > now, but you can look into sources.cfg for dependencies. That's where I looked see that hostapd depends on it. There are no others listed. No matter; it is not important. I will update libnl v1.1 to install the .pc file when I load kismet into CVS. davidMbrooke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
