Re: Confusing wireless-tools error message

From: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel holtmann org>
Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Confusing wireless-tools error message
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:11:27 -0500

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

References:
- Confusing wireless-tools error message
  - From: Marcel Holtmann

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