From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: captain.deadly@gmail.com (captain)
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:04:31 +0100
Subject: enabling config_wireless_ext
Message-ID: <506F212F.9020601@gmail.com>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org

Sorry Confused. I'm building from the latest 3.6 kernel from git in 
order to be able to submit patches. Well if I get that far. I'm running 
the built on my netbook but I'm having problems building my wifi drivers 
against the 3.6.0 kernel. Basically I've got an error:

error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'wireless_handlers'

Which is fair enough if you look in the kernel source 
include/linux/netdevice.h there's a "'#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT"

So this is easy all I have to do is enable that switch and rebuild the 
kernel. You might not believe it but that's were I come unstuck. I did a 
search in "make menuconfig" for that switch and it does provide some 
info but normally when I do a search the help tells me where to find it. 
(Which is a God send.) So searching for it is finding it but not giving 
me suitable help on where it is in the menu structure.

I then decided that I'd search for it in the .config file. Can't find it 
in there either.

This is a mailing list for newbies and I know this is a stupid question 
but can anybody advise me on where that switch is in make menuconfig?

I did find this page out there but that's pointing at Kconfig in source 
code not where it is in the menus:

http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/WIRELESS_EXT.html
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