Re: Confusing wireless-tools error message

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 10:08 -0800, Asterix86 wrote:
> 
> 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

Yes, because the fix went in after 0.7 was released.

Dan