[ale] WiFi Hotspot Oddity

[Pat Regan]

Jason Day wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 04:58:48PM -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 19
>> of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 17.
>> Some things may be broken...
> 
> I get this message on my laptop with my own WAP, but everything seems to
> work perfectly.  I'm using ndiswrapper, and started getting this message
> after a recent ndiswrapper upgrade.  I just assumed it was a mismatch
> between ndiswrapper and the driver I was using for my wireless card.
> Since everything works ok, I haven't looked into it.
> 

This is the message you get when your wireless tools (iwconfig, etc)
don't match the version of the kernel driver.  I've yet to have a
mismatch cause me any problems, which is probably why it is a warning
and not an error :).

Pat
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