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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6973] Add a new toolbar for channel setting on nl80211 wir

Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:11:14 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6973

--- Comment #51 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-07-12 02:11:14 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #50)
> For what it's worth collegues get
> 
> ws80211_utils.c:250: error: 'NL80211_CMD_SET_CHANNEL' undeclared (first use in


    ...

> uname -a
> Linux sekic2440 2.6.32.29-0.3-default #1 SMP 2011-02-25 13:36:59 +0100 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

NL80211_CMD_SET_CHANNEL is *NOT* in include/linux/nl80211.h in the 2.6.32.4
kernel.  It's there in the 3.0.4 kernel; there's a comment section

 * @NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY: set wiphy parameters, needs %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY or
 *      %NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX; can be used to set %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_NAME,
 *      %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_TXQ_PARAMS, %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ,
 *      %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_CHANNEL_TYPE, %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_SHORT, 
 *      %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RETRY_LONG, %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FRAG_THRESHOLD,
 *      and/or %NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_RTS_THRESHOLD.
 *      However, for setting the channel, see %NL80211_CMD_SET_CHANNEL
 *      instead, the support here is for backward compatibility only.

before the definition of enum nl80211_commands.

Perhaps we either need a configure script option that looks for
NL80211_CMD_SET_CHANNEL (it's not a #define, so we can't just check for it), or
check for a #define that arrived along with it, and either need to leave the
wireless toolbar out if it's missing or fall back on NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY if
we can use that.

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