From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about wireless configuration
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:53:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD2C8F4.5000309@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288878640.10023.2.camel@Nokia-N900-51-1>
On 11/04/2010 08:50 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> I am trying to test the latest Realtek driver for the RTL8187L. In order
>> for the driver to be able to scan, CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT must be set to
>> "y". I could find no way to do that with the kernel configuration
>> utilities until I made the following patch. I know it is wrong, but I
>> would like to know the correct way.
>
> There is no correct way, drivers that need it will select it in kconfig which obviously doesn't work for out-of-tree drivers.
Thanks. I selected ZD1201 in the configuration, and WIRELESS_EXT is there.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-04 13:36 Question about wireless configuration Larry Finger
2010-11-04 13:50 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-04 14:53 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2010-11-04 19:33 ` Rafał Miłecki
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