Hi Tom,
I am going to snip parts of your message out.  Not that I don't think it is 
important, but more so I can concentrate on one thing.

Tom Rosmond wrote:
... snip ...
> 
> Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 21 of Wireless
> Extension,
> but has been compiled with version 20, therefore some driver features
> may not be available...
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"olympic"  
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
> 00:1B:2F:E3:DF:4A   
>           Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm   
>           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
>           Link Quality=51/100  Signal level=-62 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
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> 
> 3. Although the versions of madwifi and wireless-tools in SL 5.3 should
> be more current than I installed on the 32 bit system, the warning about
> version mismatch for the 64 bit system suggests otherwise.  This I don't
> understand.
> 
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This has me concerned because this isn't the first time I've seen this message.

I'm worried that perhaps the machine I am compiling these on has a wrong 
version of a package or two.  Despite my efforts I am not the greatest wireless 
expert and it's possible I'm doing something wrong with the compiling.  From 
what I can tell, my 32 bit and 64 bit compile area's are the same for wireless. 
  But maybe I am looking at the wrong packages.

Does anyone know where I should start looking to track down this error?  Or 
even if there is anything I can do to fix it?

Troy
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