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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Chanthearith HUON <chanthearith.huon@telecom-sudparis.eu>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nl80211 not found
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:58:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081201215851.GD3479@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4934563D.5080703@telecom-sudparis.eu>

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:25:17PM +0100, Chanthearith HUON wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I recently installed command "iw" in order to use mesh capability in my  
> wireless card.
> iw itself and its required library were installed successfully. But  
> whenever I run the command "iw", this message appears "nl80211 not 
> found."
>
> My linux is ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex with kernel 2.6.27
> My wireless card: Pro/wireless 2200BG Network connection with ipw2200  
> driver.
>
> Can you give me some suggestions?

Your hardware does not support mesh mode, and the driver doesn't
support nl80211 anyway.

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Linux should be at the core
linville@tuxdriver.com			of your literate lifestyle.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-01 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-01 21:25 nl80211 not found Chanthearith HUON
2008-12-01 21:58 ` John W. Linville [this message]

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