Re: Wired NIC bridged through WLAN AP doesn't auto-connect

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 17:58 +0100, Steinar Bang wrote:
> >>>>> Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> 
> >> But building NetworkManager on this Ubuntu 7.10 box fails, because it
> >> can't find glib-gettext >= 2.2.0, and I haven't been able to find a
> >> .deb package that matches this.
> 
> > Fedora distributes this in the glib2-devel package, it gets installed
> > in /usr/bin/glib-gettextize.  Are you sure you've got that installed
> > on your system already?  If not, do you have the development package
> > for glib-2.x installed?
> 
> Close.  The package name was libglib2.0-dev, and the next package was
> missing was intltool, then some m4 packages that live in the package
> gnome-common was missing.
> 
> Then autogen.sh stopped on a problem with the wireless-tools package:
>  configure: error: wireless-tools >=28pre9 not installed or not functional.
> 
> So I googled and found this message:
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=389559
> 
> I ran 
>  sudo apt-get build-dep network-manager
> 
> Which pulled in quite a bit more stuff.
> 
> Much better than picking the packages manually.
> 
> The autogen.sh invocation still fails, with the following message:
> checking for LIBNL... configure: error: Package requirements (libnl-1 >= 1.0-pre8) were not met:
> 
> Requested 'libnl-1 >= 1.0-pre8' but version of libnl is 1.0-pre6
> 
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> 
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBNL_CFLAGS
> and LIBNL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> 
> Not sure what to do about that.

You'll need a newer libnl.

Dan