On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 11:46 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > 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...? Do we even have usable nl80211 on RHEL 5? Pretty sure it was a Tech Preview there if it was ever shipped, and given that RHEL5 is like 2.6.17 I'm pretty sure any nl80211 there would be unusable anyway. Dan > 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 > > > -- 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
