The wireless stack in RHEL 5 (and therefore CentOS 5) is rather old. I'm not sure that trying to run an updated iw on it will be a fruitful exercise...? On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:59:52AM +0100, Anthony Griffiths wrote: > I'm trying to compile iw in centos5.8 server (command line only). I > have libnl and libnl-devel installed: > ]# rpm -q libnl > libnl-1.0-0.10.pre5.5 > I've tried 4 different versions of iw*.tar.bz2 but all give compile > errors that i can't resolve. The last one I tried was iw-0.9.1 but > make gives: > ]# make > CC interface.o > In file included from /usr/include/net/if.h:26, > from interface.c:2: > /usr/include/sys/types.h:62: error: conflicting types for ‘dev_t’ > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:22: > error: previous declaration of ‘d ev_t’ was here > /usr/include/sys/types.h:67: error: conflicting types for ‘gid_t’ > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:54: > error: previous declaration of ‘g id_t’ was here > /usr/include/sys/types.h:72: error: conflicting types for ‘mode_t’ > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:24: > error: previous declaration of ‘m ode_t’ was here > /usr/include/sys/types.h:77: error: conflicting types for ‘nlink_t’ > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:25: > error: previous declaration of ‘n link_t’ was here > /usr/include/sys/types.h:82: error: conflicting types for ‘uid_t’ > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:53: > error: previous declaration of ‘u id_t’ was here > In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:133, > from /usr/include/net/if.h:26, > from interface.c:2: > /usr/include/time.h:105: error: conflicting types for ‘timer_t’ > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:31: > error: previous declaration of ‘t imer_t’ was here > In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:220, > from /usr/include/net/if.h:26, > from interface.c:2: > /usr/include/sys/select.h:78: error: conflicting types for ‘fd_set’ > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:21: > error: previous declaration of ‘f d_set’ was here > In file included from /usr/include/net/if.h:26, > from interface.c:2: > /usr/include/sys/types.h:235: error: conflicting types for ‘blkcnt_t’ > /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.13.1.el5/source//include/linux/types.h:142: > error: previous declaration of ‘ blkcnt_t’ was here > make: *** [interface.o] Error 1 > > There is no iw yum package for centos5 that I can find. > I've been searching google but cannot find a solution to the above > error, thanks for any help. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
