Problems on FC3

["Lance A. Brown" <lance bearcircle net>]

I've got a IBM Thinkpad T41 with an IBM 801b.11a/b/g wireless card
running Fedora Core 3, fully updated.

I installed the NetworkManager RPM (NetworkManager-0.3.1-3).

'sudo service start NetworkManager' gets me:

Starting NetworkManager daemon:
** (process:31643): CRITICAL **: file NetworkManagerDevice.c: line 368
(nm_device_unref): assertion `dev != NULL' failed

as does running 'sudo NetworkManager' manually.

OK, fine says I. :-)  Download the SRPM to rebuild it and get:

Distribution targeting: RedHat
if this is not correct, please specifiy your distro with
--with-distro=<distro>
+ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/NetworkManager-0.3.1'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/NetworkManager-0.3.1/src'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE
-pthread -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/hal
  -Wall -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
-DBINDIR=\"/usr/bin\" -DDATADIR=\"/usr/share\"    -O2 -g -pipe -m32
-march=i386 -mtune=pentium4 -MT NetworkManagerAP.o -MD -MP -MF
".deps/NetworkManagerAP.Tpo" \
  -c -o NetworkManagerAP.o `test -f 'NetworkManagerAP.c' || echo
'./'`NetworkManagerAP.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/NetworkManagerAP.Tpo" ".deps/NetworkManagerAP.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/NetworkManagerAP.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
In file included from NetworkManagerAP.c:23:
NetworkManagerUtils.h:43: error: syntax error before '*' token
make[2]: *** [NetworkManagerAP.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/NetworkManager-0.3.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/NetworkManager-0.3.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.19075 (%build)


OK.  So I download the code from CVS and run the autogen.sh command as
per the NetworkManager web page and get:

checking whether gcc understands -Wno-unused... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wno-strict-aliasing... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wno-sign-compare... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wdeclaration-after-statement... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile.in


So, what's up?  I would assume the RPM works, but it sure doesn't appear
to for FC3, and I can't seem to get it built any other way.  I'd like to
try out this app, as I feel its an important advance in managing linux,
and can't seem to get there...

Advice?

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