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From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
To: James <bjlockie@lockie.ca>
Cc: linux-wireless Mailing List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: no CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:23:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4090CD.9090407@hauke-m.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D40774A.608@lockie.ca>

On 01/26/2011 08:34 PM, James wrote:
> I installed compat-wireless-2011-01-25 and iwlist doesn't work but iw does.
> The warning dmesg shows is "cfg80211: wext will not work because kernel
> was compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=n. Tools using wext interface,
> like iwconfig will not work." which is fine BUT my kernel is compiled with
> CONFIG_WIRELESS=y
> CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y
> and those are the only 2 'WIRELESS' anything.
> 
> I have kernel 2.6.36.3.

Hi,

you have to activate CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT and nothing else to use the
wext interface. You can not doe this directly in your kernel config, you
have to modify the KConfig or build something that depends on
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT like ipw2200. Just set CONFIG_IPW200=m in the kernel
configuration and it will also activate CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y

Hauke

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-26 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-26 19:34 no CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT James
2011-01-26 20:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-01-26 21:23 ` Hauke Mehrtens [this message]
2011-01-26 22:53   ` James

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