wavemon crasches with: fatal error: could not get range information

[Cornelius Keller]

wavemon crashes immedeatly with the message:
fatal error: could not get range information.

might be compiled against old version of wireless tools.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Yep. wavemon #includes <linux/wireless.h> which comes from linux-kernel-headers. Dapper has linux-kernel-headers version 2.6.11.2-0ubuntu17, but the kernel itself is 2.6.15-22-686.

linux/wireless.h from linux-kernel-headers says its version is 17.

linux/wireless.h from linux-headers-2.6.15-22-686 says its version is 19.

The size of the iw_range struct changed in wireless extensions version 18. If I recompile wavemon with the newer linux/wireless.h it starts working.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

I filed a bug (bug #44997) against linux-kernel-headers.

[Markus Majer (mpathy)]

Here at my installation its the same:

"fatal error: could not get range information."

Its the actual kernel as to the date of this comment (5th July 2006) also a -686 Kernel. When is this supposed to be fixed or what would be a easy workaround?

[Alexandros Papadopoulos (apapadop)]

Confirmed also with Linux ubuntu 2.6.15-26-386 #1 PREEMPT Mon Jul 17 19:52:53 UTC 2006 i686 GNU

[Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier)]

Fixed in edgy.