Re: Confusing wireless-tools error message

[Asterix86 <asterix lagaule org>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 15:23 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>> 
>> the error message for the WEXT headers check is really confusing:
>> 
>> checking Linux Wireless Extensions >= 18... no
>> configure: error: wireless-tools >= 28pre9 not installed or not
>> functional
>> 
>> So on Debian/Ubunut it doesn't really help to install wireless-tools.
>> You have to install libiw-dev instead.
>> 
>> I double checked with Fedora 10 and I don't see how installing the
>> package wireless-tools will help their either.
> 
> Updated in trunk and stable 0.7.
> 
> Dan
> 
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0.7.0 tarball:
checking Linux Wireless Extensions >= 18... no
configure: error: wireless-tools >= 28pre9 not installed or not functional
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