From: James <bjlockie@lockie.ca>
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Cc: linux-wireless Mailing List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: no CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:53:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D40A5D5.90000@lockie.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4090CD.9090407@hauke-m.de>
On 01/26/11 16:23, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> 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
Ah, I googled before but I never found that, thanks.
I will just try to use iw. :-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-26 22:53 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
2011-01-26 22:53 ` James [this message]
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