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From: James <bjlockie@lockie.ca>
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Cc: linux-wireless Mailing List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: did compat-wireless-2011-01-27 crash dhcpcd?
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:21:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D41FDF7.3040805@lockie.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D41ED24.9010005@hauke-m.de>

On 01/27/11 17:09, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> On 01/27/2011 09:52 PM, James wrote:
>> cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
>> Compat-wireless backport release: compat-wireless-2011-01-06-3-g8db1608
>> Backport based on linux-next.git next-20110121
>> ath9k 0000:02:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
>> ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x10
>> ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
>> ath: Country alpha2 being used: CO
>> ath: Regpair used: 0x10
>> ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control'
>
>> cfg80211: wext will not work because kernel was compiled with
>> CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=n. Tools using wext interface, like iwconfig will
>> not work.
> WEXT is deactivated in compat-wireless because CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y was
> not set in your kernel config and iwconfig does not work without wext.
>
> See: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg63449.html
>
> Hauke
> --

I'm not using any tools.
The call trace happens after I do a modprobe.
I'm guessing it doesn't like dhcpcd.

Do I really need CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-27 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-27 20:52 did compat-wireless-2011-01-27 crash dhcpcd? James
2011-01-27 22:09 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2011-01-27 23:21   ` James [this message]
2011-01-27 23:39     ` Brian Prodoehl
2011-01-28  9:25       ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-28 16:07       ` enable CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT James
2011-01-28 16:49         ` Randy Dunlap
2011-01-28 16:12     ` did compat-wireless-2011-01-27 crash dhcpcd? Brian Prodoehl
2011-01-29  3:01       ` James
2011-01-29  6:31         ` Brian Prodoehl
2011-02-02 19:08           ` Kalle Valo

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