kwifimanager (KDE 3.2.2) fails

tam · Guru Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 569

This is all I got, when I start kwifimanger.

tam · Guru Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 569

Can anyone confirm?

flokno · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 1:10 pm Post subject:

plate · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject:

There's an upstream bug report by a Fedora customer, describing the same error as yours. I've checked and crashed my own Kwifimanager quite successfully, but with slightly different symptoms. Here's a thread that suggests a solution, let us know if it makes your problem disappear. I'll mark this one duplicate if it does.

flokno · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject:

tam · Guru Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 569

K-Dawg · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject:

I too get this error on my lappy w/ an Orinoco card and on my desktop w/ a D-Link card.

F16PilotJumper · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:09 pm Post subject:

I'm getting wireless for my laptop...

Yay for the command line, I guess.

bettlert · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 15

jup, same here

gentoo-2.6.5-sources
kde-3.2.3

thinkpad r32 (orinoco)

kickdown · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 1

Finally, the source for the "Alarm Clock" problem seems to be found. The problem lies in the way Gentoo installs its kernel sources. It produces an oddity that leads to a version mismatch in the wireless extensions.
Unfortunately, it shows up only when compiling KDE (and thus KWiFiManager is the only program on which it has an impact). A user with some knowledge of doing decent debugger work found this glitch (thank you very much, Markus Moll!).
/usr/include/linux contains its own set of kernel headers, which unfortunately donÂ´t necessarily matches the set of header files
in /usr/src/linux/include/linux, which it should.

The temporary workaround for this problem is as follows:
Make /usr/include/linux a symlink pointing to /usr/src/linux/include/linux and re-emerge kdenetwork.
("ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux") after deleting / renaming /usr/include/linux.
I will probably open a bug report on GentooÂ´s bugzilla to make this distribution behave like that per default. After they have updated their packages, the workaround should become obsolete.