Airport/iBook/YDL3.0 problems

[Stefan Bruda]

Hi.

At 17:17 +0100 on 2003-5-15 Jon Atkinson wrote:
 >
 > tried to run neat to fix the problem. neat fails to start with the
 > message:
 > 
 > "Warning: Device eth1 has been compiled with version 14 of Wireless
 > Extension, while we are using version 12. Some things may be broken..."
 > 
 > followed by a gui window with some Python errors which I guess is a
 > symptom of the above problem.

It is not, the card should work fine despite the warning.  I have seen
this message countless times (until I grew bored and decided to
recompile the wireless-tools package) without any apparent detrimental
effect on functionality.

The culprit seems to be the GUI configurator (the only thing that uses
Python I believe).  Have you tried to configure the card using
iwconfig directly?  This is what I do and everything works quite
nicely (it also talks fine with a rather diverse collection of
wireless cards on my home network).

I also assume you have an Airport card (as opposed to Airport Extreme
which will not work yet under Linux).

Stefan

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